blackguard

Example Sentences

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I could have walked 100 miles to have dirked him à l’Américaine for his cruelly associating John in the Cockney School, and other blackguardisms.

From Life of John Keats by Rossetti, William Michael

You have struck up a regular friendship with Calderon in Paris, dearest Richard; a la bonne heure, he is one of the right sort in whose society one may forget many blackguards and blackguardisms.

From Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 2 by Hueffer, Francis

I have no taste for politics, for the blackguardisms of fame, for philanthropy, for sport.

From The Invisible Man by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

He was reading L'Intransigeant, and marking in blue pencil the points where he considered its racy blackguardisms were not sufficiently pungent.

From The Recipe for Diamonds by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright

Never was Epicurean philosophy like theirs; they have a fine liberal sense of the blackguardisms that a man may commit, and yet not forfeit his position in society.

From Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Lever, Charles James