Read full poem →Their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed
Whatever brute and blackguard made the world.
Dictionary Entry
(old-fashioned, usually used only of men) A scoundrel; an unprincipled contemptible person; an untrustworthy person.
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “blackguard”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The frighted women take the boys away,
The blackguard laughs and hurries on the fray.
He tries to reach the woods, an awkward race,
Read full poem →little" as prophet or moralist; as a guide to knowledge; as an educator
of the general reader--"your British blackguard," as he was pleased to
call him--his teaching and influence were "in widest commonalty spread."
Read full poem →And hunted, as was William Wallace,
Wi’ constables-thae blackguard fallows,
An’ sodgers baith;