blackguard
noun
a low, contemptible person; scoundrel.
blackguardly
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a word derived from
blackguard.
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a word derived from
blackguard.
blackguardnouna low, contemptible person; scoundrel.
Example Sentences
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Mencken dismissed him as a “backwoods demagogue of the oldest and most familiar model — impudent, blackguardly, and infinitely prehensile.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2019
A writer himself, once passingly successful, now not, he nurses an ambition to write a blackguardly novel on the Céline or Miller model if he can find a way to do it.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2012
"It's all a downright, absolute, blackguardly lie," he said — perhaps joking, as Pythons will.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 27, 2011
“It’s all a downright, absolute, blackguardly lie,” he said — perhaps joking, as Pythons will.
From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2011
For one thing the food was really good and plentiful, and none of the men were of that blackguardly kind that glory in taking every advantage of any weakness aft.
From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Frank T. Bullen
