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

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

Popular Poet Martin Farquhar Tupper heard the shocking news and immediately produced a suitable poem: 0 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 I vowed Sebastian Vliet should answer to me for his dastard trick before he was many hours older.

From The MS. in a Red Box by Hamilton, John Arthur