Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Dastardliness; base cowardice.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Base timidity; cowardliness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
base timidity ;cowardliness
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Examples
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Jasper started to his feet, unable to remain sitting in the midst of so much dastardy.
Agent Q, or The Smell Of Danger! M. T. Anderson 2010
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Jasper started to his feet, unable to remain sitting in the midst of so much dastardy.
Agent Q, or The Smell Of Danger! M. T. Anderson 2010
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They live over the mountains and they have dastardy orgiastic rites and eat babies sometimes.
From the mouth of babes Miss Snark 2005
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And in anguished silence should they bear the punishment he would mete out to them, or else in no less anguished speech themselves proclaim their own dastardy to the world.
The Snare Rafael Sabatini 1912
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Those amorous nations were consistent; with them all was God, even Fear and its dastardy, even crime and its bacchanals.
Seraphita Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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"We cannot allow this dastardy act to go unpunished."
WN.com - Articles related to FiTting method to face global warming 2010
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"We cannot allow this dastardy act to go unpunished."
WN.com - Articles related to FiTting method to face global warming 2010
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The Guardian details a number of raw humint reports on Iranian dastardy, then makes a curious claim for its other sources:
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"We cannot allow this dastardy act to go unpunished."
WN.com - Articles related to Aquino looks into 'real' state of Philippine finances 2010
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"We cannot allow this dastardy act to go unpunished."
WN.com - Articles related to Aquino looks into 'real' state of Philippine finances 2010
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