blackguardly Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite lacking principles or scruples
    roguish; scoundrelly; rascally.
    • the rascally rabble
    • the tyranny of a scoundrelly aristocracy" - W.M. Thackaray
    • the captain was set adrift by his roguish crew

WordNet


Black"guard*ly adverb & adjective
Definitions
  1. In the manner of or resembling a blackguard; abusive; scurrilous; ruffianly.

Webster 1913