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

“Look here,” cried the lieutenant angrily, “I want the names of the men who played this blackguardly trick upon the poor fellow.”

From Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser by Handforth, W.B.