blackguardly

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blackguardly
Adjective
  • Soon, the deputy commissioner was asking me about narcissism and criminal thinking.
    Joe Garcia, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
  • That seems pretty criminal to me.
    ABC News, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2025
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
  • 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
  • Elliot Richardson, the Attorney General, resigned -- resigned rather than carry out the corrupt orders of the president.
    ABC News, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Eric Adams, who started his career as a transit cop, was undone in part by his dealings with corrupt old friends from the department.
    Eric Lach, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • No one knows the cake’s origin, but people like to offer theories on its name: Some say the word devil is a nod to the sinful dark chocolate, reminiscent of devil’s food cake.
    Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 22 Sep. 2025
  • In an important variation, medieval soldiers returning from war regularly spent an extended period of penance in monasteries – a recognition of Catholicism’s teaching that any war is inherently sinful.
    Timothy Gabrielli, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The evil White Vision regains all of his previous memories and flies off by himself.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Then the evil grin loses its enthusiasm, gradually working its way to a toothless pucker.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Unlike previous seasons, Dorothy never makes immoral choices.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • This is disgraceful and immoral.
    Armando Garcia, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Barry Cooper, the colorful former police officer turned scourge of crooked cops, couldn’t attend the screening of a new film about him at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival in Arkansas.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Instead of squandering a potential big inning, the Cubs had put up a crooked number.
    Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
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“Blackguardly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blackguardly. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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