Dastardly
['dæstədlɪ;'dɑː-] or ['dæstɚdli]
Definition
(a.) Meanly timid; cowardly; base; as, a dastardly outrage.
Inputed by Andre
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Cowardly, dastard.
Typist: Nora
Examples
- He was a coward, from head to foot; and showed his dastardly nature through his sullenness and mortification, as much as at any time of his mean life. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- What does our dastardly contemporary mean? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It was dastardly of the woman, said Clym. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The instantaneous and dastardly destruction of our battleship, The Maine, with 250 of her crew, in Havana harbor, February 15, 1898, by one of these agencies, is a harrowing illustration. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It was easier, and less dastardly on the whole, for a wife to play such a part toward her husband. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- They'll spare the women; but my man tells me that they have taken an oath to give no quarter to the men--the dastardly cowards. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Typist: Nora