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▪ I. dastardly, a.|ˈdɑːstədlɪ, -æ-|
[f. dastard n. + -ly1.]
†1. Inert of mind or action; stupid, dull. Obs.
1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 96 b, The Owle is called the dastardly Bird: she is of such slouth and sluggishnesse.
2. Like or characteristic of a dastard; showing mean or despicable cowardice.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 251 A feareful, cowardly, and dastardly loute. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 333 Losing courage continually, and daily growing more base and dastardly. 1761Hume Hist. Eng. II. xxix. 157 The Swiss infantry..behaved in a dastardly manner and deserted their post. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 207 The most dastardly and perfidious form of assassination. 1872Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. lv. 12 III. 19 The slanders of an avowed antagonist are seldom so mean and dastardly as those of a traitor. Mod. A dastardly outrage.
▪ II. † ˈdastardly, adv. Obs.
[-ly2.]
Like a dastard; in a cowardly manner.
1552Huloet, Dastardly, or lyke a dastarde, pusillanimiter. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Skiamachia Wks. (1711) 201 And the brave men of Scotland all the while shall ly still quiet..calling dastardly upon a parliament. |