Definition of dastardnext
as in coward
a person who shows a shameful lack of courage in the face of danger the villain of the story is a dastard indeed

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coward
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  • Fishback showed up at a Donalds campaign event in Lake City on Saturday with a bunch of supporters, shouting through a bullhorn that Donalds was a coward for not debating him and telling him to go back to New York, a reference to Donalds’ childhood in Brooklyn.
    Jeffrey Schweers, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 June 2026
  • Tyland may have gotten Triarchy pirate Admiral Sharako Lohar on Team Green’s side, but at his core this man is a coward.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 19 June 2026
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“Dastard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dastard. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.

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