How To Use Dastard In A Sentence

  • But when she spots a tin of cash lying around, she is sorely tempted to commit a dastardly act. The Sun
  • Stanley was very tall and though a very sweet man, he had a deep, gravelly voice that often got him jobs on cartoon shows as dastardly villains.
  • But will the dastardly plan be uncovered? The Sun
  • The rogues ransack the place in search of a treasure map, offing the men and carting the women, including feisty Violet Miranda, onto a ship run by the dastardly but suave Captain Calico Jack.
  • dastard," but he coolly waited until Haldane had finished, and then asked in his former tone: A Knight of the Nineteenth Century
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  • Separated from a certain fascination that there was for her in Edward's acerb wit, she saw that he was doing a dastardly thing in cold blood. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
  • As a result of their scheming ways, the dastardly duo are clearly making enemies outside the house.
  • It is a classic tale of good and evil with an orphan hero, a plucky girl to befriend him, dastardly villains, a bit of a twist and an element of magic.
  • Just as the FBI has its ‘most wanted’ list of criminals, American women have their own ‘most dastardly’ list of unfaithful rotters and cheats.
  • Have you ever wondered why these evil and dastardly beings might be interested in us?
  • Then, her mind was filled with an intense hate, a hate for the dastards that abducted her crewmates.
  • She includes in her litany of blog dastardliness my argument that NPR is forbidding journalistic curiosity. Jeff Jarvis: NPR Blames Us for its Problems: Insane
  • The debt recovery agency that carried out the dastardly deed is not expected to have its contract renewed.
  • He was now dejected and devoid of his trademark bow tie, which was a clue from the wardrobe department that he was a dastardly dandy.
  • He narrated the harrowing experience at length and focused on the "dastardliness of the terrorists who killed the Jewish parents of an infant. Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy: Peace #1 Issue in the World Today: Pakistan & Palestine -- Parallel Pivots in the Peace Paradigm
  • They live over the mountains and they have dastardy orgiastic rites and eat babies sometimes. From the mouth of babes
  • Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist, psychologist, and an actor who disguised compromise and dastardliness, had argued the opinions of western world by reflecting his self-contradiction.
  • The Guardian details a number of raw humint reports on Iranian dastardy, then makes a curious claim for its other sources: Welcome to Chris Floyd's Empire Burlesque
  • But when she spots a tin of cash lying around, she is sorely tempted to commit a dastardly act. The Sun
  • Aladdin's nemesis, Jafar, has long since been despatched to the after-life, but his evil sister Nasira has found a way to bring back the dastardly villain by invoking the ‘spell of restoration’.
  • Surprise could only marvel at the dastardliness of the deal. Stork Naked
  • These dastardly bombs contain coils of metal that fragment when the core charge detonates, usually in an airburst that showers people below with shrapnel.
  • But will the dastardly plan be uncovered? The Sun
  • In fact, some of the most dastardly villains in Hollywood have outrun the long arm of the law in the very same car. Times, Sunday Times
  • This opinion was shared by Minister in the Presidency, Essop Pahad, who called the xenophobic violence which started on May 12 "dastardly" and "systematic attacks" which had no place in a democratic South ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Together they try to piece together gaps in his memory to stop this dastardly deed. The Sun
  • And will the pair see through the dastardly plans their rivals hatch to get them out of the school play? Times, Sunday Times
  • Can they be so dastardly and despicable as to attack the president during a presidential campaign?
  • Dark tales of haunted houses, dastardly deeds and jilted lovers spice up the city's back streets. The Sun
  • He sensed a dastardly plot to milk the producing masses for the benefit of a few capitalists. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
  • Well, he has to after JD tells her his dastardly plan. The Sun
  • We cannot allow this dastardy act to go unpunished. WN.com - Articles related to FiTting method to face global warming
  • I had found the body underneath the floorboards, but I had yet to find the dastard that placed it there.
  • Dark tales of haunted houses, dastardly deeds and jilted lovers spice up the city's back streets. The Sun
  • She nods but he doesn't know her dastardly plan. The Sun
  • With dastardly cunning his council had announced that it was going to replace the area's present wheelie bins by ones half the size. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's the story of a woman who plots a dastardly revenge on her unfaithful lover.
  • But accouple these words with the succeeding actions, -- "You dastard! Public Speaking
  • The rogues ransack the place in search of a treasure map, carting the women, including feisty Violet Miranda, onto a ship run by the dastardly but suave Captain Calico Jack.
  • An ingenious story that mixes the usual dastardly deception with paranormal pranks. The Sun
  • He goes on the run from the dastardly goverment forces lead by a snot-nosed ladder-climber.
  • He tries to kill off Sargon, nearly convinces Thalassa to keep hers to, and performs all manner of dastardly deeds before his plans finally crumble. The Ten Commandments in the World of Star Trek
  • I did keep my gob shut (I think I did anyway, Dee will surely back me up on this) and I waited till she let off her own yell of anger before joining in the rant against the dastardly final twist.
  • I love that game, it requires absolutely no skill or dastardliness.
  • And for a while, his dastardly plan looked like it could succeed. The Sun
  • Watching the latest batch of fly-on-the-wall police programmes this week, my family sat in disbelief listening to the narration at the end of the show - you know the part where the voice comes on and tells the audience what punishments the dastardly criminals received who were seen arrested during the show. The Revolving Door System. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • For once I finally know who my enemies are, so I might as well treat them with the same dastardliness that they would treat me.
  • But there's no need to travel into the city for the annual dose of dames and dastardly baddies.
  • Together they try to piece together gaps in his memory to stop this dastardly deed. The Sun
  • Rising fantasy queen du jour Gemma Arterton bags herself a far better role than the plot-explaining clothes-horse she played in the recent dismal Clash of the Titans remake, while "Sir" Ben Kingsley simply dusts of his dastardly baldie performance from Thunderbirds with scenery-chewing results. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
  • And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd; -- do you think that this national shame and dastardliness of heart are not written as legibly on every rivet of your iron armour as the strength of the right hands that forged it? The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
  • By the time the victim begins hallucinating, turns gray-skinned, becomes paralyzed, and dies, it may be impossible to identify who did the dastardly deed, or when.
  • John, you also forgot to mention their dastardly plans to bomb women and children in yet more state sponsored terror.
  • In fact, some of the most dastardly villains in Hollywood have outrun the long arm of the law in the very same car. Times, Sunday Times
  • The dastardly act which has caused so much pain and misery to the American people and indeed all peace lovers around the globe, was barbaric and devilish.
  • She nods but he doesn't know her dastardly plan. The Sun
  • Instead he labeled those who raised the questions as purveyors of "blood libel accusations," i.e., to be saying something equivalent in its dastardliness to reviving the medieval canard that Jews used the blood of Christians to bake their matzoth at Passover. Dissent & Israel: An Exchange
  • That is appalling form rather than a dastardly plot. Times, Sunday Times
  • The coyote, in this case, is the world's greatest super-villain, a bald, barrel-chested, Eastern-European-accented dastard named Gru (voiced by Steve Carrell). Marshall Fine: Movie review: Despicable Me
  • And in anguished silence should they bear the punishment he would mete out to them, or else in no less anguished speech themselves proclaim their own dastardy to the world. The Snare
  • I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, Dec. 7, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese empire.
  • He has glaucoma, which is that most dastardly sort of condition: a pre-existing one. Metapost: On Health Care Reform « Motivated Grammar
  • Happily today, a Speaker who can withstand dastardly political plots is assured of a relatively safe existence. Times, Sunday Times
  • Notaries are neutral, acting for both buyer and seller and definitely not engaged in a dastardly plot to defraud you. Times, Sunday Times
  • Dastardly attempt to win the cause of the working girls by dirty scab leaders and butter-fingered capitalist class," it began, and after this followed a wild jumble of words, words without meaning, sentences without point in which Sam was called a mealy-mouthed mail-order musser and The Windy McPherson's Son
  • Robbing he called plundering the enemy; and hanging was, in his idea, a dastardly and cruel advantage that the latter took, and that called for the sternest reprisals. Catherine: a story
  • Have you ever wondered why these evil and dastardly beings might be interested in us?
  • Dark tales of haunted houses, dastardly deeds and jilted lovers spice up the city's back streets. The Sun
  • This dastardly double-dealing duo plays quite well together, injecting a great deal of sinister, urbane menace into the movie, and adding extra levels of complexity to the story.
  • You're one of those estate agent dastards - bumping up house prices beyond the reach of young working couples.
  • When he was told of his own dastardly deeds, he acted the part of an innocent bystander and watched in amusement as half a dozen troopers and police, joined by several civilians galloped off at great speed in search of the highwayman.
  • Those amorous nations were consistent; with them all was God, even Fear and its dastardy, even crime and its bacchanals. Seraphita
  • With dastardly cunning his council had announced that it was going to replace the area's present wheelie bins by ones half the size. Times, Sunday Times
  • He is a dastardly turncoat Democratic mole, who betrayed the good people of this country for purely political reasons.
  • And will the pair see through the dastardly plans their rivals hatch to get them out of the school play? Times, Sunday Times
  • But now when I am coming amongst the baronages and the lineages, what shall I do to hold up my head before the fools and the dastards of these high kindreds?
  • Happily today, a Speaker who can withstand dastardly political plots is assured of a relatively safe existence. Times, Sunday Times
  • Jen - you never know what dastardliness you have until you try! The WritingYA Weblog: Peddling Plots
  • The dastardly crime to which he is alluding took place five years ago. Times, Sunday Times
  • unprovoked and dastardly attack
  • I'm certain his dead ex-wife haunts him nightly for being such a dastard. Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
  • That is appalling form rather than a dastardly plot. Times, Sunday Times
  • That being said, I can see how it might be HIGHLY ALARMING for a woman to receive an email from a court official stating that while she thought was performing her civic duty, little did she know that another, more dastardly kind of "venire" was going on (elbow-elbow-wink-wink). Above the Law
  • Few, perhaps, could have reckoned with the peculiar dastardliness of dispatching a special ambassador to play for time until preparations for a surprise attack were ready.
  • What are the dastardly deeds, thoughts and fantasies which your Negative Ego pokes and taunts you with?
  • I am wracking my brain now trying to remember if I was experimenting with a new kind of groundcover last year because in one area that is what I seem to have - so much of this stuff that it's either a dastardly foe or a real winner. SPRING 2009 SITE CLEANUP
  • The German player also seeks to reinsure the treaty by tying in the Swedish matter because he cannot rely on Russian compliance simply because the deal is good for both countries; that is, he must protect against fools as well as dastards.
  • Deeming the man who would not fight on provocation a dastard, when brought to the test it seemed wrong that he should fight. The Men of Forty-Mile
  • X Factor judge St. Cheryl Cole is planning to divorce her husband, the dastardly Ashley, following the footballer's 'sexting', or sex-text shenanigans. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
  • The man is a double-dyed dastard.
  • An ingenious story that mixes the usual dastardly deception with paranormal pranks. The Sun
  • I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday December 7, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire.
  • One of the obstacles is the rumor that iodized salt is actually a contraceptive, a dastardly plot by outsiders to keep Muslims from having babies.
  • the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on...December 7th
  • The voice of the boys is universally for the Union, against all traitors, whether those who openly meet them in the field, or the more dastardly coward that remains at home and backbites, and aids the enemy by words of comfort, and spreading dissensions in the rear. Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive
  • The enigmatic pilferer was working to retrieve his family's sacred book The Thievius Raccoonus, stolen by the dastardly mechanical Clockwerk, a bird-like villain who did away with Sly's parents when he was young.
  • He scarcely appeared half his usual height; his joints were unknit, his limbs would not support him; his face was contracted, his eye wandering; debility of purpose and dastard fear were expressed in every gesture. The Last Man
  • About the only things that change from one Plum novel to the other are the eccentricities of the skips and the dastardliness of the chief Bad Guy.
  • And for a while, his dastardly plan looked like it could succeed. The Sun
  • Tengberg does not specify how the fraudster perpetrated their dastardly deeds - wouldn't the company have been insured against dud credit cards?
  • Jeff Tracy and his sons sort out natural disasters and frustrate the dastardly plans of the megalomaniac villain called the Hood.
  • Jasper started to his feet, unable to remain sitting in the midst of so much dastardy. Agent Q, or The Smell Of Danger!
  • But if there was nothing dastardly in this, neither was there anything heroic, since I was proof against that kind of deadliness if Bob was not. No Hero
  • He sensed a dastardly plot to milk the producing masses for the benefit of a few capitalists. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
  • Well, he has to after JD tells her his dastardly plan. The Sun
  • I think, however, that the killing of Bin Laden will motivate extremists to carry out a variety of dastardly deeds.
  • Her husband, who at best is but a cotquean - one of those fellows who has a dastardly fear of his wife, which, you know, Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,
  • Victor Fisher, on hand outside the hall, charged the dissenting delegates with being ‘dastards and cowards, some of whom… were the paid agents of the enemy, and.., traitors not only to their country but to civilisation.’
  • They thwart dastardly supervillains and have saved the world countless times over but macho superheroes now face a determined new foe in the guise of a mild-mannered child psychologist.
  • Dark tales of haunted houses, dastardly deeds and jilted lovers spice up the city's back streets. The Sun
  • Dark tales of haunted houses, dastardly deeds and jilted lovers spice up the city's back streets. The Sun
  • Crispinus goes on telling Horace that none are safe from such calumnies; but that, if his 'dastard wit' will 'strike at men in corners,' if he will 'in riddles folde the vices' of his best friends, then he must expect also that they will 'take off all gilding from their pilles,' and offer him 'the bitter coare' (core). Shakspere and Montaigne
  • “Let not thy mind be overmuch crossed by unwise men at thronged meetings of folk; for oft these speak worse than they wot of; lest thou be called a dastard, and art minded to think that thou art even as is said; slay such an one on another day, and so reward his ugly talk. The Story of the Volsungs
  • What shines through are the wonderful and witty lyrics and dastardly clever arrangements.
  • If they are making ‎ such a dastardly accusation, I personally shall be in the fore of the attack against such a ‎ glabrous innuendo (I'm not sure if that word is right here, but it sounded nice)! A Frisson of Freedom
  • The foreign ministry called the ambush a "dastardly terrorist act.
  • And so, by a strangely avenging justice, the magnificent Gonzaga sank dead on the very spot on which he had so cravenly and dastardly poniarded Aventano. Love-at-Arms
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  • She is "one of the rare examples of a female protagonist in pulp adventure stories," Mr. Penzler notes, and is indeed quite a girl, capable of swimming naked from a wrecked ship and outwitting and outfighting her father's dastardly enemies. The Case of the Missing Adventure Story
  • The dastardly villains are the ones in the red uniforms who speak as if they've just swallowed a plum.
  • The dastardly crime to which he is alluding took place five years ago. Times, Sunday Times
  • No, I believe the whole thing is a dastardly plot to malign and traduce a great man.

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