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Meanings of dastard in English

Despicably cowardly.

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Examples for "dastardly"
1
That had been true even in the regime of the dastardly Cordova.
Alcatraz
2
The most dastardly sin on earth is the desertion of the fallen.
Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida / Selected from the Works of Ou...
3
Magny got money for him; the Princess again befriended her dastardly lover.
Barry Lyndon
4
That in itself spoke eloquently of the dastardly attempt on his life.
The Crucifixion of Philip Strong
5
Surely we should be told what dastardly Euro plot is afoot here?
The Irish Times
Usage of dastard in English
1
Sure I see another motive in his dastard capture of my brother.
In the Days of Chivalry: A Tale of the Times of the Black Prince
2
Surely I have never stood a coward, a dastard in your sight?
Prisoners of Chance / The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen,...
3
He was a dastard, a traitor; he was unworthy to reign.
Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, from the mss. of Fray Anto...
4
I saw that loveliest of women, whom the dastard Heselrigge slew.
The Scottish Chiefs
5
Either I must go, or be a traitor and a dastard.
Frida; Or, The Lover's Leap: A Legend Of The West Country / From...
6
Listen: this man was a thief, a dastard, and a traitor.
Montezuma's Daughter
7
Which is the worse, you proud young womam, the dastard or the bastard?
Erema; Or, My Father's Sin
8
The dastard died without a groan: why should I lament him?
The Wood Beyond the World
9
You see now what sort of stuff that dastard's heart is made of.
Scenes of Clerical Life
10
Ay, had my own kinsman's been the hand to do the dastard deed.
The Vale of Cedars; Or, The Martyr
11
And thou an alien-born hast slain their traitor and their dastard!
The House of the Wolfings / A Tale of the House of the Wolfings ...
12
But the fact was heroically otherwise; and these dastard calumnies cut to the blood.
A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa
13
She had called him a dastard, and now stood looking him in the face.
The Eustace Diamonds
14
The dastard, as well as the brave, cannot avoid death.
Thaumaturgia; Or, Elucidations of the Marvellous
15
The gentleman was a man of high rank, but a scoundrel and a dastard.
Charlotte's Inheritance
16
So Siggeir gave a new order to his dastard troops.
The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths
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