Dastardly
adjective
Very mean and wicked, usually done secretly.
He executed a dastardly plan to ruin his competitor's reputation.
Often appears as...
- dastardly act
- dastardly plan
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Very mean and wicked, usually done secretly.
He executed a dastardly plan to ruin his competitor's reputation.
Often appears as...
- dastardly act
- dastardly plan
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Use 'dastardly' to describe actions that are considered morally bad or evil by most people.
The villain's dastardly scheme involved kidnapping the hero's sidekick.
Pro Tip 2/3Sneaky Implication
'Dastardly' implies that the action was done in a sneaky or treacherous way, not just openly mean.
He was fired for his dastardly manipulation of the company's finances.
Pro Tip 3/3Old-Fashioned Tone
Although 'dastardly' is marked as modern usage, it may sound old-fashioned, resembling language from classic literature or films.
The detective revealed the dastardly culprit with a flourish.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Use 'dastardly' to describe actions that are considered morally bad or evil by most people.
The villain's dastardly scheme involved kidnapping the hero's sidekick.
Pro Tip 2/3Sneaky Implication
'Dastardly' implies that the action was done in a sneaky or treacherous way, not just openly mean.
He was fired for his dastardly manipulation of the company's finances.
Pro Tip 3/3Old-Fashioned Tone
Although 'dastardly' is marked as modern usage, it may sound old-fashioned, resembling language from classic literature or films.
The detective revealed the dastardly culprit with a flourish.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Use 'dastardly' to describe actions that are considered morally bad or evil by most people.
The villain's dastardly scheme involved kidnapping the hero's sidekick.
Pro Tip 2/3Sneaky Implication
'Dastardly' implies that the action was done in a sneaky or treacherous way, not just openly mean.
He was fired for his dastardly manipulation of the company's finances.
Pro Tip 3/3Old-Fashioned Tone
Although 'dastardly' is marked as modern usage, it may sound old-fashioned, resembling language from classic literature or films.
The detective revealed the dastardly culprit with a flourish.
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The loathsome, lethal...
Over a million people worldwide die every year from mosquito-borne diseases, and that's just people. Horses, dogs, cats, they can all get diseases from mosquitoes too. So, if these bugs are so dastardly, why don't we just get rid of them? We are humans after all, and we're pretty good at getting rid of species. Well, it's not quite so simple.
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Misha Glenny: Hire the...
at protecting our data. But there is also a very serious aspect to Anonymous -- they are ideologically driven. They claim that they are battling a dastardly conspiracy.
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Fireflies: Nature's...
but it turns out that they have this really dastardly side and that's really exciting biology let's go find some professor sarah lauer is a passionate
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The loathsome, lethal...
Over a million people worldwide die every year from mosquito-borne diseases, and that's just people. Horses, dogs, cats, they can all get diseases from mosquitoes too. So, if these bugs are so dastardly, why don't we just get rid of them? We are humans after all, and we're pretty good at getting rid of species. Well, it's not quite so simple.
Video examples
Misha Glenny: Hire the...
at protecting our data. But there is also a very serious aspect to Anonymous -- they are ideologically driven. They claim that they are battling a dastardly conspiracy.
Video examples
Fireflies: Nature's...
but it turns out that they have this really dastardly side and that's really exciting biology let's go find some professor sarah lauer is a passionate
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Quote examples
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Pakistani Politician
Let those men who still have these misguided ideas, let those men who still have these hallucinations, realize that by anarchism, by dastardly crimes, they cannot bring about good government; let them realize that these methods have not succeeded in any country of the world and are not likely to succeed in India.
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Laura Benanti
American Actress
I do think that having the villain be a woman is just as feminine, because we're not just saying, 'Women are wonderful and made of marshmallows,' but women can be anything. They can be amazing superheroes, or they can be dastardly villains, and everything in between.
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John Coleman
American Businessman
It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.
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Andrew Shaffer
American Author
The difficult part of writing about someone you don't admire is that it's easy to demonize them. What you get then is a cackling villain, twirling their mustache at every dastardly deed they commit.
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Bob Odenkirk
American Actor
I'm hypersensitive to negativity and duplicity, and I want to push it away by writing comedy. Maybe that hypersensitivity comes across and allows me to play dastardly, multi-layered people.
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Carl Paladino
American Politician
Don't misquote me as wanting to hurt homosexual people in any way. That would be a dastardly lie.
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Brett Kavanaugh
American Judge
If the president does something dastardly, the impeachment process is available.
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Pakistani Politician
Let those men who still have these misguided ideas, let those men who still have these hallucinations, realize that by anarchism, by dastardly crimes, they cannot bring about good government; let them realize that these methods have not succeeded in any country of the world and are not likely to succeed in India.
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Laura Benanti
American Actress
I do think that having the villain be a woman is just as feminine, because we're not just saying, 'Women are wonderful and made of marshmallows,' but women can be anything. They can be amazing superheroes, or they can be dastardly villains, and everything in between.
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John Coleman
American Businessman
It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.
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Andrew Shaffer
American Author
The difficult part of writing about someone you don't admire is that it's easy to demonize them. What you get then is a cackling villain, twirling their mustache at every dastardly deed they commit.
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Bob Odenkirk
American Actor
I'm hypersensitive to negativity and duplicity, and I want to push it away by writing comedy. Maybe that hypersensitivity comes across and allows me to play dastardly, multi-layered people.
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Carl Paladino
American Politician
Don't misquote me as wanting to hurt homosexual people in any way. That would be a dastardly lie.
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Brett Kavanaugh
American Judge
If the president does something dastardly, the impeachment process is available.
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