blackguard
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈblæɡərd/
- Offensive
:
sinvergüenza
- He's a blackguard for cheating his friends out of their money.
- blackguard, a scoundrel
- an old blackguard
Examples
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Greyston Adair is a blackguard and a smuggler, and death has stalked him.
Blog text (22) -
How stupid she had been to trust that blackguard Colin Faraday.
Fiction book (2001) -
Take that blackguard from this place!
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No sign of the blackguard anywhere.
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"So I'm a blackguard, am I?"
Fiction book (1992) -
Where is that blackguard Lefroy?
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The blackguard who abandoned us to Nottingham's plundering.
Fiction book (1991) -
You've seen the way the sneaky blackguard operates.
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He's a thoroughgoing blackguard, and I despise him.
Fiction book (2002) -
He said that race owners were a congregation of the worst blackguards in the country mixed with the greatest fools.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
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8.4
A person who behaves badly and cannot be trusted
14
7.9
A man who treats women badly and shows no respect
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9.9
A man who behaves in a rude or dishonest way
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5.6
A person who other people do not respect because they behave badly
A person who betrays others and cannot be trusted
Antonyms
How Dishonorable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Blackguard began as a name for servants whose clothes became black with dirt; black meant 'dirty' and guard is like in 'bodyguard', a group of people. Because these workers had little respect, the word slowly changed to mean a 'dishonorable' person or scoundrel.