dastard

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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

It was Sydney's pride in particular, and in Sydney's War Museum it stayed until last April when Museum attendants, opening up for the day, discovered that some good-for-nothing dastard had stolen it.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

In mid-honeymoon in New Orleans, America learns the truth about him: Fant is a gambler and a dastard.

From Time Magazine Archive

How he grins! this breast, Had it been temper'd and made proof like mine, It never would have been a mark for fools To hit afar off with their dastard bullets.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert