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BLACKGUARDLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blackguardly mean?
• BLACKGUARDLY (adjective)
The adjective BLACKGUARDLY has 1 sense:
1. lacking principles or scruples
Familiarity information: BLACKGUARDLY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking principles or scruples
Synonyms:
blackguardly; rascally; roguish; scoundrelly
Context example:
the captain was set adrift by his roguish crew
Similar:
dishonest; dishonorable (deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive)
Derivation:
blackguard (someone who is morally reprehensible)
Context examples
As the cab drew up before the address indicated, the fog lifted a little and showed him a dingy street, a gin palace, a low French eating house, a shop for the retail of penny numbers and twopenny salads, many ragged children huddled in the doorways, and many women of many different nationalities passing out, key in hand, to have a morning glass; and the next moment the fog settled down again upon that part, as brown as umber, and cut him off from his blackguardly surroundings.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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