blackguardnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈblæɡ.ɑːd//ˈblæɡ.əd/us/ˈblæɡ.ɑːrd//ˈblæɡ.ɚd/old-fashioneda person, usually a man, who is not honest or fair and has no moral principles
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Unpleasant men
- badass
- blighter
- bounder
- bovver boy
- bruiser
- creep
- dog
- git
- lager lout
- lech
- oik
- roughneck
- ruffian
- scoundrel
- sob
- warlock
- white van man
- wide boy
- wise guy
- yob
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Examples from literature
- But alas for all our romances, he was nothing but a loud, profane, offensive, old blackguard!
- I have had much fun out of these "tipsters," for they are deliciously impudent blackguards.
- Otherwise you might have carried to your grave the fear instilled into your soul by that blackguard.
- You tell me that you're not disgraced, and yet you are out at midnight with a young blackguard like that!
- You were a coward as well as a blackguard.