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

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

O cowardly boy! for that base word includes All baseness, doth not shame kill thee, Or fear chill thy dastard blood to an ice, At sight of that most noble injur'd ghost?

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