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

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

Popular Poet Martin Farquhar Tupper heard the shocking news and immediately produced a suitable poem: 0 dastard!

From Time Magazine Archive

Moderate thy wrath, curb thy fury, and remember that cruelty is the mark of a dastard.

From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Bird, Robert Montgomery