dastard
Americannoun
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of dastard
1400–50; late Middle English < ?.
Example Sentences
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Claire’s father, based on the real-life dastard Lord Lucan, loved her mother, until he grew tired of her.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2018
The Post Office, the Department of Justice and chemists of the Naval Laboratory were asked to trace out the dark roots of a dastard, sinister conspiracy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week he defended himself before a full house, flayed Elliott for a damnable dastard.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is flighty April Morrison a little breath of bedspring from Colorado, done in by a dastard who tools a white Jaguar.
From Time Magazine Archive
Moderate thy wrath, curb thy fury, and remember that cruelty is the mark of a dastard.
From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Bird, Robert Montgomery
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