blighter

But the most important question: what do we call the blighter?

Londonist 2009

The blighter was a blaze of mauve from the ankle-bone southward.

Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories 1928

The sorry part of it was that that "blighter" in trying to get me had shot several other men.

"The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders John Allister Currie

We at first thought the Germans were upon us, but the scattering of the fire brands all over the room told us that some "blighter" had left some clips of live cartridges in the sweepings of the fire place.

"The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders John Allister Currie

Of course if you refused you were a "blighter" of the worst description.

Fanny Goes to War Pat Beauchamp Washington

The obvious obstruction is the obstinate "blighter" with a machine-gun in front of them.

Old Junk 1915

Though the fashion may be for plain speaking, it is often a matter of mood, and the mate who genuinely believes you a "blighter" one day, will claim you as a

A Popular Schoolgirl Angela Brazil 1907

My word for 'blighter' was _trottel_, but I used some other expressions which would have ravished my Young Turk friend to hear.

Greenmantle John Buchan 1907

Mrs. K calls me a 'blighter' day in and day out, sir and one has to put up with these outbursts.

Telegraph Blogs 2009

Since I am an optimistic kind of blighter, I've an Alagh law: good ideas eventually drive out bad ones.

Top Headlines 2009