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
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
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
In mid-honeymoon in New Orleans, America learns the truth about him: Fant is a gambler and a dastard.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here’s a bumper to the gallant girl That smote the dastard Tory, oh!
From Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental by Various
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