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  • And will the pair see through the dastardly plans their rivals hatch to get them out of the school play? Times, Sunday Times
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • An ingenious story that mixes the usual dastardly deception with paranormal pranks. The Sun
  • 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
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  • 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
  • What are the dastardly deeds, thoughts and fantasies which your Negative Ego pokes and taunts you with?
  • 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
  • That is appalling form rather than a dastardly plot. Times, Sunday Times
  • unprovoked and dastardly attack
  • The dastardly crime to which he is alluding took place five years ago. Times, Sunday Times
  • Happily today, a Speaker who can withstand dastardly political plots is assured of a relatively safe existence. Times, Sunday Times
  • the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on...December 7th
  • He is a dastardly turncoat Democratic mole, who betrayed the good people of this country for purely political reasons.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Dark tales of haunted houses, dastardly deeds and jilted lovers spice up the city's back streets. The Sun
  • Have you ever wondered why these evil and dastardly beings might be interested in us?
  • 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
  • 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
  • Notaries are neutral, acting for both buyer and seller and definitely not engaged in a dastardly plot to defraud you. Times, Sunday Times
  • Happily today, a Speaker who can withstand dastardly political plots is assured of a relatively safe existence. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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.
  • No, I believe the whole thing is a dastardly plot to malign and traduce a great man.
  • The dastardly crime to which he is alluding took place five years ago. Times, Sunday Times
  • The dastardly villains are the ones in the red uniforms who speak as if they've just swallowed a plum.
  • 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
  • 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
  • The foreign ministry called the ambush a "dastardly terrorist act.
  • 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
  • What shines through are the wonderful and witty lyrics and dastardly clever arrangements.
  • 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
  • He has glaucoma, which is that most dastardly sort of condition: a pre-existing one. Metapost: On Health Care Reform « Motivated Grammar
  • 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,
  • I think, however, that the killing of Bin Laden will motivate extremists to carry out a variety of dastardly deeds.
  • Well, he has to after JD tells her his dastardly plan. 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
  • 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
  • Jeff Tracy and his sons sort out natural disasters and frustrate the dastardly plans of the megalomaniac villain called the Hood.
  • Tengberg does not specify how the fraudster perpetrated their dastardly deeds - wouldn't the company have been insured against dud credit cards?
  • And for a while, his dastardly plan looked like it could succeed. The Sun
  • 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.
  • 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
  • But when she spots a tin of cash lying around, she is sorely tempted to commit a dastardly act. 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
  • Dark tales of haunted houses, dastardly deeds and jilted lovers spice up the city's back streets. The Sun
  • Can they be so dastardly and despicable as to attack the president during a presidential campaign?
  • And will the pair see through the dastardly plans their rivals hatch to get them out of the school play? Times, Sunday Times
  • Together they try to piece together gaps in his memory to stop this dastardly deed. The Sun
  • 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
  • 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
  • But will the dastardly plan be uncovered? The Sun
  • These dastardly bombs contain coils of metal that fragment when the core charge detonates, usually in an airburst that showers people below with shrapnel.
  • 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’.
  • Well, he has to after JD tells her his dastardly plan. The Sun
  • 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.
  • The debt recovery agency that carried out the dastardly deed is not expected to have its contract renewed.
  • Have you ever wondered why these evil and dastardly beings might be interested in us?
  • Just as the FBI has its ‘most wanted’ list of criminals, American women have their own ‘most dastardly’ list of unfaithful rotters and cheats.
  • 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.
  • As a result of their scheming ways, the dastardly duo are clearly making enemies outside the house.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • But will the dastardly plan be uncovered? 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • That is appalling form rather than a dastardly plot. Times, Sunday Times
  • She nods but he doesn't know her dastardly plan. The Sun
  • 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.
  • 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
  • John, you also forgot to mention their dastardly plans to bomb women and children in yet more state sponsored terror.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Together they try to piece together gaps in his memory to stop this dastardly deed. The Sun
  • But there's no need to travel into the city for the annual dose of dames and dastardly baddies.
  • But when she spots a tin of cash lying around, she is sorely tempted to commit a dastardly act. The Sun
  • And for a while, his dastardly plan looked like it could succeed. The Sun
  • 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.
  • 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
  • He goes on the run from the dastardly goverment forces lead by a snot-nosed ladder-climber.
  • An ingenious story that mixes the usual dastardly deception with paranormal pranks. The Sun
  • 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.
  • It's the story of a woman who plots a dastardly revenge on her unfaithful lover.
  • 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
  • She nods but he doesn't know her dastardly plan. The Sun
  • Dark tales of haunted houses, dastardly deeds and jilted lovers spice up the city's back streets. The Sun

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