Blackguard Definition

blăgərd, -ärd
blackguards
noun
blackguards
A thoroughly unprincipled person; a scoundrel.
American Heritage
The lowest servants of a large household, in charge of pots and pans.
Webster's New World
A foul-mouthed person.
American Heritage
A person who uses abusive language.
Webster's New World
Scoundrel; villain.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
verb
blackguards
To abuse verbally; revile.
American Heritage
To abuse with words; rail at; revile.
Webster's New World
To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
adjective
Vulgar, low, etc.
Webster's New World
Abusive.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Blackguard

Noun

Singular:
blackguard
Plural:
blackguards

Origin of Blackguard

  • black +‎ guard, thought to have referred originally to the scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who wore black liveries, blacked shoes and boots, or were often stained with soot.

    From Wiktionary

Blackguard Sentence Examples

  • Papa, he is a blackguard and a thief!

  • Ever since my poor old master prevented her from marrying that tipsy blackguard -- " " Stop, " said Gilder very sternly.

  • So he went off cursing, like the foul-mouthed blackguard that he was, and swearing that he would have her yet.

  • As for the extreme theory of the anti-Rabelaisians, that Rabelais was a "dirty old blackguard" who liked filth and wallowed in it from choice, that hardly needs comment.

  • What sort of another blackguard are you?

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