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dastard
[ das-terd ]
noun
- a mean, sneaking coward.
adjective
- of or befitting a dastard; mean, sneaky, and cowardly.
dastard
/ ˈæə /
noun
- archaic.a contemptible sneaking coward
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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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