dastardly

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Why you should let it fade: Nostalgia proved to be a dastardly curse with “Little Fockers,” a theatrical experience memorable only for how dry and tiresome its comic beats were.

From Salon • Jan. 4, 2026

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

Dabney Coleman, the beloved character actor who famously played the dastardly cad overseeing Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton in “9 to 5,” has died.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2024

The Amsterdammers who saw it seethed with rage at such a dastardly deed.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank