scamps in English

noun
1
a person, especially a child, who is mischievous in a likable or amusing way.
One of the main differences we'll find it in is the way the familiar angels and devils are caricatured in a innocent-looking style, but that's deceiving; they are scamps , mischievous and even violent characters.
verb
1
do (something) in a perfunctory or inadequate way.
This is the most interesting aspect of Harvey's story and it is unfortunately scamped .

Use "scamps" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "scamps" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "scamps", or refer to the context using the word "scamps" in the English Dictionary.

1. 16 A gang of scamps threatened us.

2. When he used Stanislavsky system to teach little scamps to pretend as gangland, it added the black humor to the film.