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
But the note of roughness and blackguardism was not always sounded on American ships.
From American Merchant Ships and Sailors by Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)
Contempt is the resource of parvenus, prigs, ugly folk, and fools; it is the mask behind which nonentity shelters itself, and sometimes blackguardism; it dispenses with mind, judgment, and good-will.
From Tartarin On The Alps by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
Those were the prizes we raced for, when racing was the pastime of gentlemen, and not an excuse for blackguardism and gambling, as to-day it is fast becoming.
From The Tory Maid by Stimpson, Herbert Baird
"What blackguardism you do carry on! you, a married man!"
From Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man by Flaubert, Gustave
