blackguardismn.
/ˈblaɡɑːdɪz(ə)m/, /ˈblaɡədɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈblæɡərdɪzəm/, /ˈblæˌɡɑrdɪzəm/ 1. Abusive or scurrilous language; swearing. Now historical.
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the mind > language > malediction > [noun] > profane language
swarec1200
shit-wordc1275
words of villainya1300
filtha1400
reveriec1425
bawdry1589
scurrility1589
bawdy1622
tongue-worm1645
borborology1647
Billingsgatry1673
double entendre1673
smut1698
blackguardism1756
slang1805
epithet1818
dirty word1842
French1845
language1855
bad languagec1863
bestiality1879
swear-word1883
damson-tart1887
comminative1888
double entente1895
curse-word1897
bang-words1906
soldier's farewell1909
strong languagea1910
dirty story1912
dirty joke1913
bullocky1916
shitticism1936
Anglo-Saxonism1944
sweary1994
1756 tr. Mod. Observ. Antient Hist.: Chapter 5 7 A Grecian Blackguardism.
1799 T. Jefferson Let. 5 Feb. in Mem., Corr., & Misc. (1830) III. 416 The public..wish to hear reason instead of disgusting blackguardism.
1827 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 21 754 The revolting scurrilities, and brutal blackguardism..heaped upon Lord Eldon.
1877 Spirit of Times 15 Dec. 517/1 Slang and blackguardism is not in his line.
1931 W. Millis Martial Spirit iii. 46 Language so inaccurate and so insulting as to bring the debate at times to the verge of simple blackguardism.
1941 W. J. Cash Mind of South ii. i. 135 That intensely personal blackguardism to which criticism had so largely been reduced in the Old South..continued to exist.
1994 P. Joyce Democratic Subj. i. iii The public display of coarseness, ‘blackguardism’, seems to mortify him before all else.
2. The characteristic behaviour or manner of a blackguard (blackguard n. 6); ruffianism.
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society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > baseness or moral vileness > conduct
slavery1553
smaikry1573
cullionry1611
basery1614
sluttery1648
blackguardism1777
raffery1819
blackguardry1820
doggery1844
Schweinerei1896
1777 Ann. Reg. 1776 Characters 35/2 Those rudiments of learning which a life of dissipation, of blackguardism, and of vulgarity might have obliterated.
1785 G. A. Bellamy Apol. Life I. lxii. 311 He had the meanness, servility, and blackguardism of a Buckhorse.
1813 Edinb. Rev. 21 283 There is a tone of blackguardism both in his indecency and his profanity.
1828 T. B. Macaulay Hallam's Constit. Hist. in Edinb. Rev. Sept. 154 This..blackguardism of feeling and manners.
1869 Athenæum 28 Aug. 265 The blackguardism which is making horse-racing..detestable.
1910 Rand Daily Mail 8 Nov. 3 The murder..is theoretically set down to the wanton blackguardism of an amalaita gang.
1951 S. Spender World within World iv. 189 These statesmen came to represent a cynicism which lacked the courage of Hitler's blackguardism.
2002 Daily Tel. 13 Mar. 9/4 Whitehall was guilty of plain blackguardism in deploying private documents to manipulate public opinion..during the Great War.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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