Exactly, and one appreciates your keeping your language clean ;-). In the book, though, he’s really irredeemably nasty, and a coward in the end, too.
Well, isn’t it true that all the E-vil men in books are iredeemably dripping with all kinds of masculine hormones? We love to hate them but at the same time are fascinated by their pheromones.
In real life, it is difficult to sort the scoundrels (ahem) from the Prints Charmink.
At this time, I prefer the movie scoundrels, as I have had enough of the real life ones, thanks.