ADJECTIVE
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lacking principles or scruples
the tyranny of a scoundrelly aristocracy
the rascally rabble
the captain was set adrift by his roguish crew
How To Use blackguardly In A Sentence
- Also the South was becoming the subject of ridicule throughout the country, and I thought most southerners would not like to see themselves thought of as being hellions and blackguardly-type persons. Oral History Interview with Marion Wright, March 8, 1978. Interview B-0034. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
- I never knew that the judge could sentence me to prison for contempt of Court, unless I answered all the blackguardly questions about the Masters.
- I am enraged quickly dead, I say to grow to still be done not have greatly so had seen so brutal, how so big company inside the person is so blackguardly .
- But will you be able to thwart his most evil and blackguardly scheme ever: to kidnap the beautiful young Queen of Glorianne?
- I would ask that the severest penalty allowed be inflicted on the accused for his unwarranted, unmanly, and blackguardly conduct. Duty, and other Irish Comedies
- ‘Well,’ he said, ‘I don't profess to look on it from the religious ground, you know, but I thought it blackguardly, and in bad taste, and said so.’
- “I know what photos are,” he said, thinking of Reynolds and his blackguardly image of Joss. Aching for Always
- Let the courts make an example of the perpetrators, and in doing so send out the message to others that their vandalistic and blackguardly ways are not acceptable to the decent majority.
- “Most blackguardly thing I ever saw,” George continued. Scales of Justice
- While you do have to draw your sword and fight quite a few blackguardly knaves in this game, it is still very much an adventure game.