blackguard

• “Slegge is what you call a blackguard," cried Singh angrily.”

  Glyn Severn's Schooldays

• “When a man has no longer anything but rags upon his body and vices in his heart, when he has arrived at that double moral and material degradation which the word blackguard characterizes in its two acceptations, he is ripe for crime; he is like a well-whetted knife; he has two cutting edges, his distress and his malice; so slang does not say”

  Les Miserables

• “But if the victim was a blackguard, is the shooter entitled to claim provocation or self-defense or some other statutory excuse to reduce the charge to one of manslaughter or even a simple assault?”

  The Famous Black-McKaig Trial

• “The man whom you call a blackguard -- I don't know why, for _he_ had not been destroying any defenceless person's property -- had had a scoundrelly trick played him, and I and some other fellows got up a subscription for him, as anyone with a spark of gentlemanly feeling would be inclined to do.”

  Dr. Jolliffe's Boys

• “But now that this young blackguard is thoroughly outwitted, we may as well go, for our work here is done.”

  Lady Molly of Scotland Yard

• “-- When a man has no longer anything but rags upon his body and vices in his heart, when he has arrived at that double moral and material degradation which the word blackguard characterizes in its two acceptations, he is ripe for crime; he is like a well-whetted knife; he has two cutting edges, his distress and his malice; so slang does not say a blackguard, it says un reguise.”

  Les Miserables, Volume IV, Saint Denis

• “Magistrates, priests, agents, middlemen, tax-gatherers, and tax-payers rush into print to abuse the 'blackguard' -- he is always the blackguard -- who invented the lie; and men upwards of ninety are quoted to show that so long as they could remember, there never was a man injured, nor a rick burned, nor a heifer hamstrung in the six baronies round!”

  Lord Kilgobbin

• “banauson" -- in plain English, blackguard; and we do not see how it can be called anything else, unless in the case of some utter brute in human form, to whom "there is no coenum, and therefore no obscoenum; no fanum, and therefore no profanum.”

  Literary and General Lectures and Essays

• “But what's the virtue of reporting, if it stops short of calling a blackguard a blackguard?”

  Marty Kaplan: All the News That's Fit to Neuter

• “The blackguard was a few years younger than Harry; handsome in an open, hale-fellow-well-met manner; well-dressed; and sporting a dark mustache that drooped over a repulsively smiling mouth.”

  Hero Come Back

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