Blackguardly

  

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Blackguardly

Definition: Blackguardly

Blackguardly

Adjective

1. Lacking principles or scruples; "the rascally rabble"; "the tyranny of a scoundrelly aristocracy" - W.M. Thackaray; "the captain was set adrift by his roguish crew".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "blackguardly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1886. (references)


Synonyms: Blackguardly

Synonyms: rascally (adj), roguish (adj), scoundrelly (adj). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: Blackguardly

Language Translations for "blackguardly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

poshtërisht, i poshtër (beggarly, caitiff, dastardly, dirt, ignoble, infamous, mean, miscreant, nasty, nefarious, picayune, rammish, scoundrelly, scurvy, sneaking, sneaky). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏حقير (abject, base, beggarly, cheap, despicable, dingy, dirty, frowzy, grubby, ignoble, inferior, insignificant, lousy, low, low down, lowly, mean, menial, niggling, paltry, pettifogger, petty, pip squeak, pitiable, pitiful, poor, popinjay, rotten, scabby, scaly, scoundrelly, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, servile, shabby, shoddy, slavish, slim, slushy, small minded, snide, sod, squalid, swine, tacky, trifling, ungracious, unworthy, varmint, vile, villainous, worthless, wretched), ‏بدئ (arise, originate). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

неморален (immoral, light, loose, wrong), подъл (base, caitiff, creeping, dastardly, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, dirt, dirty, dishonorable, dishonourable, jesuitic, jesuitical, low, low down, low-minded, mean, mean-spirited, miscreant, recreant, reptile, scurvy, shabby, snaky, sneaking, sneaky, snide, vile, villainous). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

فحاش (Reviler, Vilifier), بی شرف (Thug). (various references)

   

French

  

infâme, ignoble. (various references)

   

German

  

niederträchtig (base, basely, caddish, despicable, infamous, malicious, mean, spiteful, squalid, squalidly, vile, villainous, wicked). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

elvetemült (caitiff, desperado, reprobate), aljasan (basely, dirtily). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ackguardlyblay

   

Russian 

  

мерзко (cursedly, nastily), мерзкий (abhorrent, beastly, effing, fulsome, ghoulish, lousy, rank, scaly, villainous). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

skurkligt. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

terbiyesiz (bad, blackguard, broad, caddish, churlish, coarse, coarse grained, dirty, graceless, ill bred, ill mannered, immodest, immoral, impertinent, impolite, improper, impudent, indelicate, inelegant, insolent, mannerless, naughty, ribald, risky, risque, rude, scabrous, shameless, uncultured, underbred, undressed, unmannerly, unpolished), ağzı bozuk (abusive, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, ribald, scurrilous, vituperative). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Blackguardly"

Words rhyming with "blackguardly" (pronounced 'Black"guard*ly'): Abandonedly, Abasedly, Abashedly, Abhorrently, Abidingly, Abjectly, Abnormally, Abominably, Aboriginally, Abortively, Abruptly, Absently, Absolutely, Absorbedly, Abstinently, Abstractedly, Abstractively, Abstractly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Abundantly, Abusively, Abysmally, Academically, Accentually, Acceptably, Acceptedly, Accessarily, Accessibly, Accessorily, Accidentally, Accommodately, Accordantly, Accordingly, Accountably, Accurately, Accusatively, Accusatorially, Accusingly, Accustomably, Accustomarily, Achromatically, Acidly, Acknowledgedly, Acoustically, Acquiescently, Acquisitively, Acridly, Acrimoniously, Acrocephaly. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Blackguardly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-d-g-k-l-l-r-u-y"

-2 letters: blackguard.

-3 letters: gradually.

-4 letters: arguably, backyard, balladry, ballyrag, bullyrag, caudally, grayback, laudably.

-5 letters: aurally, blackly, curably, ducally, durably, gradual, ladybug.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Blackguardly


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 6C 61 63 6B 67 75 61 72 64 6C 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .-..    .-    -.-.    -.-    --.    ..-    .-    .-.    -..    .-..    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01101100 01100001 01100011 01101011 01100111 01110101 01100001 01110010 01100100 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#108 &#97 &#99 &#107 &#103 &#117 &#97 &#114 &#100 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 006C 0061 0063 006B 0067 0075 0061 0072 0064 006C 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

367867697773876784707891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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