Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Cowardliness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being dastardly; cowardice; base fear.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
dastardly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun despicable cowardice
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Examples
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She includes in her litany of blog dastardliness my argument that NPR is forbidding journalistic curiosity.
Jeff Jarvis: NPR Blames Us for its Problems: Insane Jeff Jarvis 2010
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She includes in her litany of blog dastardliness my argument that NPR is forbidding journalistic curiosity.
Jeff Jarvis: NPR Blames Us for its Problems: Insane Jeff Jarvis 2010
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She includes in her litany of blog dastardliness my argument that NPR is forbidding journalistic curiosity.
Jeff Jarvis: NPR Blames Us for its Problems: Insane Jeff Jarvis 2010
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She includes in her litany of blog dastardliness my argument that NPR is forbidding journalistic curiosity.
Jeff Jarvis: NPR Blames Us for its Problems: Insane Jeff Jarvis 2010
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He narrated the harrowing experience at length and focused on the "dastardliness of the terrorists who killed the Jewish parents of an infant."
Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy: Peace #1 Issue in the World Today: Pakistan & Palestine -- Parallel Pivots in the Peace Paradigm Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy 2011
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She includes in her litany of blog dastardliness my argument that NPR is forbidding journalistic curiosity.
Jeff Jarvis: NPR Blames Us for its Problems: Insane Jeff Jarvis 2010
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Jen - you never know what dastardliness you have until you try!
The WritingYA Weblog: Peddling Plots tanita davis 2008
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Surprise could only marvel at the dastardliness of the deal.
Stork Naked Anthony, Piers 2006
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Instead he labeled those who raised the questions as purveyors of "blood libel accusations," i.e., to be saying something equivalent in its dastardliness to reviving the medieval canard that Jews used the blood of Christians to bake their matzoth at Passover.
Dissent & Israel: An Exchange Novick, Ivan J. 1982
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And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd; -- do you think that this national shame and dastardliness of heart are not written as legibly on every rivet of your iron armour as the strength of the right hands that forged it?
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
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