blackguard

How To Use blackguard In A Sentence

• Thomas writes colorfully of blackguards and mistresses, salty sea dogs and young midshipmen, bloody quarterdecks and Parisian salons.
• This is an attempt to intimidate and blackguard the prison officers and this is an attempt that will fail.
• Also the South was becoming the subject of ridicule throughout the country, and I thought most southerners would not like to see themselves thought of as being hellions and blackguardly-type persons. Oral History Interview with Marion Wright, March 8, 1978. Interview B-0034. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
• It is obvious that those blackguards did something horrendous to you.
• When he made use of such a phrase as that quoted above, it was to be presumed that he in some sort meant what he said; and so he did, and had intended to signify that Crosbie by his conduct had merited all such condemnation as was the fitting punishment for blackguardism of the worst description. The Small House at Allington
• I happen to know every detail of the hellish contrivance, and I can tell you it will be the most finished piece of blackguardism since the Borgias. The Thirty-Nine Steps
• Magistrates, priests, agents, middlemen, tax-gatherers, and tax-payers rush into print to abuse the 'blackguard' -- he is always the blackguard -- who invented the lie; and men upwards of ninety are quoted to show that so long as they could remember, there never was a man injured, nor a rick burned, nor a heifer hamstrung in the six baronies round! Lord Kilgobbin
• All this scene is written in the worst form of Persian – Egyptian blackguardism, and forms a curious anthropological study. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• Was there ever heard of such lowdown blackguardism? Finnegans Wake
• I never knew that the judge could sentence me to prison for contempt of Court, unless I answered all the blackguardly questions about the Masters.