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
Last week he defended himself before a full house, flayed Elliott for a damnable dastard.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was Sydney's pride in particular, and in Sydney's War Museum it stayed until last April when Museum attendants, opening up for the day, discovered that some good-for-nothing dastard had stolen it.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
With all his audacity and low cunning, this man—a dastard at heart—was thinking how he might evade this interview, and yet obtain its anticipated results, as he came slowly through the wilderness.
From Norston's Rest by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
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