dastard

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

Last week he defended himself before a full house, flayed Elliott for a damnable dastard.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Post Office, the Department of Justice and chemists of the Naval Laboratory were asked to trace out the dark roots of a dastard, sinister conspiracy.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Then I vowed Sebastian Vliet should answer to me for his dastard trick before he was many hours older.

From The MS. in a Red Box by John Arthur Hamilton