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The Hound of the Baskervilles vocabulary
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blackguard
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synonyms: rampallian, villiago, blighter, cur, losel, human paraquat ???
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Definition:1. a scoundrel2. a foul-mouthed person---n. A man whose qualities, prepared for display like a box of berries in a market—the fine ones on top—have been opened on the wrong side. An inverted gentleman.Ambrose Bierce. The Devil's Dictionary
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"'Look here, Licky,' he said. 'You know I never borrow. It's against my principles. But I must have a shilling, or I'm a ruined man. I seem to have had my pocket picked by some scoundrelly blackguard.
P. G. Wodehouse. Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm (1909)
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You don't know, perhaps, that blackguards like honest people, and being one myself I like you. Why am I a blackguard? Tell me honestly, now. They all call me a blackguard because of her, and I have got into the way of thinking myself one. That's what is so bad about the business."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Idiot (1887)
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more real than anything had ever been to me, even Frank and my life in 1945. Jamie, tender lover and perfidious black-guard.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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"He's such a blackguard! I have told him so, but it makes no difference. Only think of it! He couldn't collect it in three years!"
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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‘Heathcliff, you may come forward,’ cried Mr. Hindley, enjoying his discomfiture, and gratified to see what a forbidding young blackguard he would be compelled to present himself.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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