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blackguardly
adverb
Like, or in the way of, a blackguard.
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H. L. Mencken described him as a "backwoods demagogue of the oldest and most familiar model — impudent, blackguardly, and infinitely prehensile".
George Bernard Shaw called the novel's language "blackguardly," and said that his own hand could never have formed the words.
"It's all a downright, absolute, blackguardly lie," he said — perhaps joking, as Pythons will.
One of Rowlandson's prints has immortalised the "dear old blackguardly Point", and one can recognise the place today, though the ships in the water beyond are no longer wooden.
Now, I know Ukip aren't "anti-establishment", but dismissing them as "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists" is an establishment position, which conveniently distances the accuser from those blackguardly traits.
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