blackguard
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The Nye committee had spent months blackguarding the du Fonts, Britain's late George V, a handful of Latin American dignitaries, Woodrow Wilson and the House of Morgan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Armed with that record, the no longer amiable Truman initiated the famous railroad tour that was named when Senator Robert Taft complained that the President was "blackguarding Congress at whistle-stops all over the country."
From Time Magazine Archive
“Well, I think he’s a fine man—has a good tongue and a fair mind. He’s given to dreaming—” “Hear now the pot blackguarding the kettle,” Liza interrupted.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Meantime, Ammon addressed the throng, incidentally blackguarding a Post reporter before the crowd, telling them that his paper was a "yellow paper, had never amounted to anything, and never would."
From True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office by Train, Arthur Cheney
"King was blackguarding dad, and I couldn't stand for it," I explained to Perry Potter as I went by.
From The Range Dwellers by Bower, B. M.
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