blackguard

How To Use blackguard In A Sentence

• Obviously, if the United States Navy hanged some eyepatched peglegged blackguard from the yardarm or made him walk the plank, pious senators would rise to denounce an America that no longer lived up to its highest ideals, and the network talking-heads would argue that Plankgate was recruiting more and more young men to the pirates 'cause, and judges would rule that pirates were entitled to the protections of the U.S. constitution and that their peglegs had to be replaced by high-tech prosthetic limbs at taxpayer expense. CRUSADER RABBIT
• Hark ye, Craigengelt; as you are going into the society of women of rank," said Bucklaw, "I'll thank you to forget your strange blackguard oaths and 'damme's.' The Bride of Lammermoor
• For his day of work he indemnified himself by nights of roaring, blackguardly enjoyment; and when that balance had been struck, the organ that he called his conscience declared itself content. The Body-Snatcher
• They'd have cleared this kind of blackguardism up with a knife. The Freebooters of the Wilderness
• But what's the virtue of reporting, if it stops short of calling a blackguard a blackguard? Marty Kaplan: All the News That's Fit to Neuter
• Earlier in the week, we had watched another character have his reputation tarnished by association with political blackguards.
• What all the late squibbing and fibbing, placarding, and blackguarding, losing and winning, beering and ginning, and every other _et cetera_, has been about! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 17, 1841
• In “Thoroughbreds and Blackguards,” Burnaugh argues that the sport’s great competitive impediment, and the temptation that renders it uniquely capricious, is the influence of gambling. The Sport of Kings
• Somebody obviously decided that they were going to stop me from talking and it's the action of a blackguard and a rogue.
• ‘your aim is right dangerous, mon, I saw how ye skelpit them, ye maun help us agin thae New Toon blackguards at our next bicker.’ Lavengro