dastard

Example Sentences

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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

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

Due to his efforts the Roman Catholic Church was disestablished in France, and ever since Combes has been a hero to the parties of the Left and to the Clericals a dastard.

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 shame on the dastard, the recreant fool, That would strike, in the dark, at her now; That would coldly refuse her fair fame to uphold, That would basely prove false to his vow.

From Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 by Anonymous