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John Stuart Mill said he had “a face of dingy blackguardism irradiated with genius.”

From Time • Oct. 19, 2011

Thinking me to be as big a scoundrel as himself, he was ready to betray his country by pushing me up the ladder of promotion if I would only help him in his blackguardism.

From The Man Without a Memory by Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams)

Here is Miles's defence: No small portion of the public has taken it for granted that pugilism and blackguardism are synonymous.

From George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends by Shorter, Clement King

Here is Miles’s defence: No small portion of the public has taken it for granted that pugilism and blackguardism are synonymous. 

From The Life of George Borrow by Shorter, Clement K.

Seeing her had made me realise my blackguardism in coming in at all, considering my reason.

From The Spinster 1905 by Hichens, Robert Smythe