单词 | blackguardry |
释义 | blackguardryn. rare. 1. The behaviour or manner of a blackguard (blackguard n. 6); = blackguardism n. 2. ΘΚΠ 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 1820 Champion (London) 24 Dec. 841/1 The taste and morals of the people are menaced..thro' the medium of an agency, which seems to determine that blackguardry is an essential part of what is now to be called loyalty. 1832 Orthodox Presbyterian Jan. 135 But you demand, ‘Is the connexion between the selling of religious tracts and blackguardry..a necessary connexion?’ 1881 G. M. Hopkins Let. 14 May (1935) 129 I have in me a great vein of blackguardry and have long known I am no gentleman. 1936 M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind x. 202 The blackguardery of the Irish who were being enticed into the Yankee army by bounty money. 1989 Times (Nexis) 29 June What saved her from years of litigation and possibly ruin was that she was..knowledgeable about such blackguardry. 2002 M. Swanwick in D. G. Hartwell Year's Best SF 7 239 Lord Coherence-Hamilton suspects us of all manner of blackguardry. 2. Blackguards regarded collectively. Cf. blackguard n. 3. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [noun] > street people > street loafer or ruffian > collectively blackguard1674 blackguardry1853 1853 Blackwood's Mag. Dec. 669/1 The impertinent question at one time current amongst the blackguardry of London. 1892 G. Gissing Born in Exile (1893) iii. i. 185 If Kenyon gets my place, the paper becomes at once an organ of ruffiandom, the delight of the blackguardry. 1912 Smart Set Apr. 85/2 Pelted with flowers of argot by the blackguardry of Paris who thronged the wet pavements six deep. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1820 |
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