blackguardly

adjective

Definition of blackguardlynext
as in criminal

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blackguardly
  1. criminal
  2. rascally
  3. knavish
  4. corrupt
  5. sinful
  6. evil
  7. immoral
  8. crooked
Adjective
  • The motion said Peterson is a business owner and military veteran who had no criminal history prior to his Jan. 6 case.
    Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Agriculture titan Archer Daniels Midland delays have mushroomed into a transfer-pricing criminal probe.
    Noah Barsky, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of criminal
Adjective
  • In 1950, scientists deployed a virus called Myxoma to destroy the rascally rabbits.
    Bethany Brookshire, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The Los Angeles Rams, starring as the rascally rabbit, defeated the slow-and-deliberate Cincinnati Bengals in a fascinating case study between completely opposite approaches to team-building.
    Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2022
Definition of rascally
Adjective
  • Wells could be playful, knavish, and his tone here is one of urgency and optimism about the distribution of information.
    BostonGlobe.com, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2021
  • The same people who are now telling us that only Republican-voting obscurantists, ignorant deplorables and knavish right-wing media pundits are raising doubts about the vaccine would have been oozing skepticism.
    Gerard Baker, WSJ, 12 July 2021
Definition of knavish
Adjective
  • The essential modern text is Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the 2010 Supreme Court decision that equates money with speech, resulting in an ever more corrupt system of campaign finance.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2025
  • The only alternative to withdrawal was defending a pathetically inept and corrupt government in Kabul until the sun exploded, which was really no alternative at all.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of corrupt
Adjective
  • And in this case, there’s nothing more sinful than talking about LeBron James trades.
    Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
  • But it also was forged from a particular kind of alchemy that separates a sinful holiday confection from a sugar-sodden mess.
    Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2024
Definition of sinful
Adjective
  • This was not out of choice: After his capture and before his execution, Höss was ordered to write his memoir, giving an insight into the workings of a mind that was both ordinary and chillingly evil.
    Saskya Vandoorne, CNN, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Nietzsche’s treatise criticizes philosophers who rest their moral framework on the assumption that good and evil are opposites.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025
Definition of evil
Adjective
  • Growing shares in each party describe those in the other party as more closed-minded, dishonest, immoral and unintelligent than other Americans.
    NBC News, NBC News, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Last week’s interview saw CBS Mornings co-host Tony Dokoupil speak with author Ta-Nehisi Coates about his new book The Message, which passionately argues that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is immoral and should be condemned.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Oct. 2024
Definition of immoral
Adjective
  • And though a second, thick stucco layer with bits of cork was an insulation novelty imported from Italy, its properties meant that the walls could remain authentically crooked.
    Julie Lasky, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
  • What he’s actually done is fake his death to create a template for a new life by stealing $90 million from a client of his crooked law firm.
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of crooked
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