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dastard

[ das-terd ]

noun

  1. a mean, sneaking coward.


adjective

  1. of or befitting a dastard; mean, sneaky, and cowardly.

dastard

/ ˈæə /

noun

  1. archaic.
    a contemptible sneaking coward
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of dastard1

1400–50; late Middle English < ?.
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of dastard1

C15 (in the sense: dullard): probably from Old Norse æٰ exhausted, out of breath
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Her father spends the movie in white, 25-piece suits and a dastard’s dark mustache, like he’s starring in the first half of “The Colonel Sanders Story.”

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There’s villainy afoot, with a white-suited dastard scheming to lure you into a deadly trap back in the bush.

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Theatergoers have reason to be amused: It seems that everyone but Othello is able to see through the obvious manipulations of this shameless dastard.

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But they will never dare—the dastards, No!—

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She will say that necessity knows no law, or some such dastard words.

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