blackguardly
Example Sentences
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Mencken dismissed him as a “backwoods demagogue of the oldest and most familiar model — impudent, blackguardly, and infinitely prehensile.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2019
A writer himself, once passingly successful, now not, he nurses an ambition to write a blackguardly novel on the Céline or Miller model if he can find a way to do it.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2012
"It's all a downright, absolute, blackguardly lie," he said — perhaps joking, as Pythons will.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 27, 2011
“It’s all a downright, absolute, blackguardly lie,” he said — perhaps joking, as Pythons will.
From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2011
What has Titterton to gain by joining me in a blackguardly scheme to—to—to——?
From The Big Drum A Comedy in Four Acts by Pinero, Arthur Wing, Sir
