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
But the note of roughness and blackguardism was not always sounded on American ships.
From American Merchant Ships and Sailors by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot
Elsewhere one's admiration for inventive vigour struggles against disgust at a mode which one only hesitates to call blackguardism because the liveliest contents of the paint-box were lavished upon it.
From George Cruikshank by W. H. Chesson
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 Clement K. Shorter
"What blackguardism you do carry on! you, a married man!"
From Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man by Gustave Flaubert
