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Meaning of blackguardize | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To make blackguardly.

Examples

“This is an Education which consists in the outleading of the blackguardizing, pauperizing, vagrant-like, and theftuous elements of the mentality, entirely withdrawn, and apart from any moral guidance, any elevating tendency, any ameliorating influence, nay, directly under the direction of the demoralized and the abandoned.”
“Accordingly it has been employed, in a modern symphony, in order to parody, degrade, and blackguardize (if I may be pardoned the expression) a melody; the dramatic intention of the work requiring this strange transformation.”
“I find it generally pays to blackguardize the husband.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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