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DASTARDLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dastardly mean?
• DASTARDLY (adjective)
The adjective DASTARDLY has 1 sense:
1. despicably cowardly
Familiarity information: DASTARDLY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Despicably cowardly
Synonyms:
dastard; dastardly
Context example:
the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on...December 7th
Similar:
cowardly; fearful (lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted)
Derivation:
dastard (a despicable coward)
dastardliness (despicable cowardice)
Context examples
He was a coward, from head to foot; and showed his dastardly nature through his sullenness and mortification, as much as at any time of his mean life.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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