Synonyms
- bastard
- beast
- bleeder [British]
- blighter [chiefly British]
- boor
- bugger
- buzzard
- cad
- chuff
- churl
- clown
- creep
- cretin
- crud [slang]
- crumb [slang]
- cur
- dirtbag [slang]
- dog
- fink
- heel
- hound
- jerk
- joker
- louse
- lout
- pill
- rat
- rat fink
- reptile
- rotter
- schmuck [slang]
- scum
- scumbag [slang]
- scuzzball [slang]
- skunk
- sleaze
- sleazebag [slang]
- sleazeball [slang]
- slime
- slimeball [slang]
- slob
- snake
- so-and-so
- sod [chiefly British]
- stinkard
- stinker
- swine
- toad
- varmint
- vermin
Examples of bounder in a Sentence
a good-for-nothing bounder who always leaves it to someone else to pick up the tab
Recent Examples on the Web
Urías then allowed a high bounder by Yu Chang to get by for a two-base error.
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Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Sep. 2021
Austin hit a bounder which filtered through Gandil’s mitt in the eighth.
—Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2020
Though Lance has fun playing a bounder and cad of the first order, the script doesn’t particularly need him.
—Jonathan Holland, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2017
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Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Sep. 2021
Austin hit a bounder which filtered through Gandil’s mitt in the eighth.
—Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2020
Though Lance has fun playing a bounder and cad of the first order, the script doesn’t particularly need him.
—Jonathan Holland, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2017
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“Bounder.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bounder. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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