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Example sentences for "blackguardly"

Lexicographically close words:
blackfish; blackguard; blackguarded; blackguarding; blackguardism; blackguards; blackhead; blackheads; blacking; blackish
  1. I know you were in a blackguardly prize-fight, sir, in a ring where your opponent was a sort of champion of the Bilston colliers.

  2. The treatment of the prologue and epilogue, where all that is blackguardly is taken out of Till's themes now that he has become a story, is of inconceivable felicity.

  3. Rather would she starve and die there than ever look upon his blackguardly face again.

  4. Once I'm over there, then you'd send me to prison without the least compunction--because I let the girl slip through your blackguardly fingers.

  5. It's a blackguardly shame that poor little Gwen, a smart little girl and yet sweet and innocent as a child, should be parted from her lover like this!

  6. It really seems a blackguardly shame to treat her badly, and wreck her young life, as they no doubt intend.

  7. It would be a cursed shame if ever the sacred relics of Israel fell into the hands of such a blackguardly hypocrite as Challas.

  8. You have, by a blackguardly ruse, been parted from the man you love--hence you are defenceless.

  9. The reply was worthy of that wounding and blackguardly wit for which Jerrold was so notorious; a form of ill-natured satire that seems never to have brought him the sound thrashing he so richly deserved.

  10. This does not at first sight present a flattering picture of William Shakespeare, but we have to consider that the deer- and game-raiders of that era were not on the blackguardly level of the modern poacher.

  11. 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.

  12. The world to which he introduces us is, as before said, blackguardly and bleak.

  13. Tim is a blackguardly kind of politician, but he is mighty cute, and shirks Irish securities.

  14. The movement was begun about half-past 2, and was successfully executed, after a stubborn resistance.

  15. And you let that big, ugly, blackguardly warmint thrash you like that?

  16. For I'm sure there was some blackguardly reason.

  17. I fell a victim--I fell into a trap ingeniously set for me, and when I struggled to set myself free I only fell deeper and deeper into the blackguardly intrigue.

  18. I was bound irrevocably to him and to his blackguardly accomplices.

  19. And the abusive missive proceeded to denounce two of my friends, ladies-in-waiting at the Neues Palais, and to make some blackguardly allegations concerning the idol.

  20. And I should have kept that promise were it not for his brutal and blackguardly acts after the outbreak of war--acts which placed him, with his Imperial father, beyond the pale of respectable society.

  21. Just out here at the edge of town in a blackguardly sort of dive.

  22. The last one was written in Denver only two days before--only three days ago, and it shows that he had completely gone back on Gleason, and accuses him of all manner of blackguardly work.

  23. He was a blackguardly adventurer, anyhow.


  24. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blackguardly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    base; black; infamous; knavish; notorious; recreant; reprobate; roguish; vile; villainous