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
As if that he might leave no form of human utterance ungilded by his genius, Shakespeare in Thersites has given us the apotheosis of blackguardism and billingsgate.
From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various
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 Herbert Baird Stimpson
At the Isle of Thanet races yesterday I saw—oh! who shall say what an immense amount of character in the way of inconceivable villainy and blackguardism!
From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster
As it is, I regard you as a psychological study in latter-day blackguardism.
From The Stowmarket Mystery Or, A Legacy of Hate by Louis Tracy
