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blackguardly

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black·guard  (blgrd, -ärd)
n.
1. A thoroughly unprincipled person; a scoundrel.
2. A foul-mouthed person.
tr.v. black·guard·ed, black·guard·ing, black·guards
To abuse verbally; revile.
blackguard·ism n.
blackguard·ly adj. & adv.
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Adj.1.blackguardly - lacking principles or scruples; "the rascally rabble"; "the tyranny of a scoundrelly aristocracy" - W.M. Thackaray; "the captain was set adrift by his roguish crew"
scoundrelly, rascally, roguish
dishonest, dishonorable - deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive
Translations
blackguardly (o.f.) [ˈblægɑːdlɪ] ADJ → vil, canallesco
blackguardly
adj deed, person → niederträchtig
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As the cab drew up before the address indicated, the fog lifted a little and showed him a dingy street, a gin palace, a low French eating house, a shop for the retail of penny numbers and twopenny salads, many ragged children huddled in the doorways, and many women of many different nationalities passing out, key in hand, to have a morning glass; and the next moment the fog settled down again upon that part, as brown as umber, and cut him off from his blackguardly surroundings.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
This was not a little enhanced by the newspaper reports, which described Raffles as a handsome youth, and his unwilling accomplice as an older man of blackguardly appearance and low type.
Raffles, Further Adventures Of The Amateur Cracksman by Hornung, E. W. View in context
For his day of work he indemnified himself by nights of roaring, blackguardly enjoyment; and when that balance had been struck, the organ that he called his conscience declared itself content.
Tales and Fantasies by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
 
 
 
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