Meaning of blackguard | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The lowest servant in a household charged with pots, pans, and other kitchen equipment.
   historical
2. An unprincipled, contemptible person; an untrustworthy person.
   dated
3. A man who uses foul language in front of a woman (typically a woman of high standing).
   archaic

Examples

“1830, Thomas Macaulay, Review of Robert Southey's edition of Pilgrim's Progress, in the Edinburgh Review A man whose manners and sentiments are decidedly below those of his class deserves to be called a blackguard.”

“Pawn another man's property for the sake of a meal, eat and drink one's self to perdition, brand one's soul with the first little sear, set the first black mark against one's honour, call one's self a blackguard to one's own face, and needs must cast one's eyes down before one's self? Never! never!”

“2006, Jan Freeman, Blaggards' of the year – Boston Globe "Arrr, keelhaul the blaggards!" wrote Ty Burr in the Globe last summer, pronouncing sentence on the malefactors who brought us the second "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie.”

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