blackguardly

Definition of blackguardlynext

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blackguardly
Adjective
  • Hill later pleaded guilty to criminal charges connected to the case, though she has never been charged with jury tampering.
    Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 29 June 2026
  • But this safeguard falls short — especially given new civil and criminal penalties for election officials that are tucked into this bill.
    Dick Durbin, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026
Adjective
  • If a rascally possum does become a problem, here's how to get rid of it and keep that opossum away.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 6 Aug. 2025
  • In 1950, scientists deployed a virus called Myxoma to destroy the rascally rabbits.
    Bethany Brookshire, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2022
Adjective
  • The main Palm Dog went to Yuri, the roguish stray at the heart of Chilean director Dominga Sotomayor’s La Perra, premiering in Directors’ Fortnight.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
  • Acquiring sports teams and land For much of his life a partying roustabout who wooed beautiful women with a roguish charm, the lean, mustachioed sportsman married three times.
    David Bauder, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
Adjective
  • Wells could be playful, knavish, and his tone here is one of urgency and optimism about the distribution of information.
    BostonGlobe.com, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2021
  • The same people who are now telling us that only Republican-voting obscurantists, ignorant deplorables and knavish right-wing media pundits are raising doubts about the vaccine would have been oozing skepticism.
    Gerard Baker, WSJ, 12 July 2021
Adjective
  • In reality, leaders on both sides are corrupt and always on the edge of disaster.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 29 June 2026
  • My career actually focuses on bonding and preventing taxpayers from being on the hook for the failures of bankrupt and corrupt companies.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026
Adjective
  • Critics also have challenged the report’s characterization of cases involving women, contending these were consensual affairs that were sinful but not abusive.
    ABC News, ABC News, 25 June 2026
  • Naim and his overly anxious single mom (Mia Wasikowska) attend rote church services in which the pastor looks to exorcise the LGBTQ+ from sinful boys who like boys and girls who like girls.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 18 June 2026
Adjective
  • With some assistance from the bounty hunter Lobo (Jason Momoa), Kara and Ruthye track down Krem and his evil Brigands.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 27 June 2026
  • Load was a Number One seller in 1996, and its comelier evil twin, ReLoad, repeated the feat a year and a half later.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2026
Adjective
  • Court records show that 60-year-old Bradley Kyle Martin, of Dearborn Heights, is charged with using a computer or internet to communicate with another person to commit a crime and accosting children for immoral purposes.
    DeJanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 25 June 2026
  • These monsters—its antitheses—constitute that part of our nature that urges us to be sensible and strong, and that inclines us to see the life drive as trivial, weak, sentimental and immoral.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 June 2026
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“Blackguardly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blackguardly. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.

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