blackguard
noun
a low, contemptible person; scoundrel.
blackguardism
-
a word derived from
blackguard.
Example Sentences
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John Stuart Mill said he had “a face of dingy blackguardism irradiated with genius.”
From Time ● Oct. 19, 2011
This species of blackguardism was only too common in those days.
From Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties by Edmund B. d'Auvergne
I do not recall these facts in order to show that Elizabethan policy was a riot of blackguardism.
From The Open Secret of Ireland by T. M. (Thomas Michael) Kettle
At the back of his thought lay not the high esteem of the poet-thinker for beauty, but the cynical blackguardism of the XIXth century.
From Amaryllis at the Fair by Richard Jefferies
"What blackguardism you do carry on! you, a married man!"
From Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man by Gustave Flaubert
