dastardly

Example Sentences

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Have the dastardly Aussies duped the Poms again?

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2025

The Grossman Law Firm, which has offices in Southern California, outlines the reasons and means for removing a dastardly trustee such as your brother.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 11, 2025

Meanwhile, Lord Grigon’s dastardly hobby is skeet-shooting fragile, flowerlike critters.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2025

There was no longer any need for a psychopath to be furtive about his dastardly designs.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2024

If divorce had presented itself as the dastardly antithesis of all this, it could easily have been cast onto the other pan of the scales, along with betrayal, illness, thieving, assault and mendacity.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan