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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

Give me a cheerful, blackguardly place like the Charing Cross, where we were in London.

From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by William James




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