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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

More than that, blackguardly as it was, I enjoyed the doing.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV by Stevenson, Robert Louis