Blackguard

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  • noun. A thoroughly unprincipled person; a scoundrel.
  • noun. A foul-mouthed person.
  • transitive verb. To abuse verbally; revile.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To revile in scurrilous language.
  • To be, act, or talk like a blackguard; behave riotously.
  • noun. In collective senses (properly as two words): The scullions and lowest menials connected with a great household, who attended to the pots, coals, etc., and looked after them when the household moved from one place to another.
  • noun. A guard of attendants, black in color of the skin or dress, or in character.
  • noun. The idle criminal class; vagabonds generally.
  • noun. The vagabond children of great towns; “city Arabs,” who run errands, black shoes, or do odd jobs.
  • noun. A man of coarse and offensive manners and speech; a fellow of low character; a scamp; a scoundrel.
  • Belonging to the menials of a household; serving; waiting.
  • Of bad character; vicious; vile; low; worthless: said of persons and things.
  • Scurrilous; abusive; befitting a blackguard: as,blackguard language.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious.
  • transitive verb. To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.
  • noun. The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the “black guard”; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army.
  • noun. The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively.
  • noun. A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough.
  • noun. A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A scoundrel; an unprincipled contemptible person; an untrustworthy person.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. subject to laughter or ridicule
  • noun. someone who is morally reprehensible
  • verb. use foul or abusive language towards
  • Word Usage
    ""Slegge is what you call a blackguard," cried Singh angrily."
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    blaggard  blagger  
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    bounder  brute  cad  calumniator  coxcomb  
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    abuse  abusive  bootblack  gamin  low  
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