It is better to be beggared out of hand by a scapegrace nephew, than daily hag-ridden by a peevish uncle.

I wonder if she hasn't set on foot a marriage between her scapegrace son and Mildred?

His house in the Via Largait had been occupied by the scapegrace assassin, Lorenzinoagain was a nursery of immorality, as well as the headquarters of the enemies of his brother.

But he had a married sister with a scapegrace husband and six daughters whom, in fact, he did support.