Sentence:  He was false, cunning, vulgar, ignoble; the cheapest kind of human product ... The white, puffy mother, with the high forehead, in the corner there, looked more like a lady; but if she were one, it was all the more shame to her to have mated with such a <WSD>varlet</WSD>, Ransom said to himself, making use, as he did generally, of terms of opprobrium extracted from the older English literature. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A rogue or scoundrel.