blackguardly

adjective

Definition of blackguardlynext
as in criminal

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blackguardly
  1. criminal
  2. rascally
  3. knavish
  4. corrupt
  5. sinful
  6. evil
  7. immoral
  8. crooked
Adjective
  • As part of a whole-of-government approach to combatting the threat, Treasury remains focused on leveraging all our available tools and authorities to better identify and counter these criminal activities.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
  • After publishing his story, Miller realized that there are many organizations, including the Just Trust in Philadelphia and Concordance in St. Louis, that are working to reform the criminal justice system and help people re-enter society as contributing members.
    — Vitas Carosella, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
Definition of criminal
Adjective
  • In 1950, scientists deployed a virus called Myxoma to destroy the rascally rabbits.
    — Bethany Brookshire, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The Los Angeles Rams, starring as the rascally rabbit, defeated the slow-and-deliberate Cincinnati Bengals in a fascinating case study between completely opposite approaches to team-building.
    — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2022
Definition of rascally
Adjective
  • Wells could be playful, knavish, and his tone here is one of urgency and optimism about the distribution of information.
    — BostonGlobe.com, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2021
  • The same people who are now telling us that only Republican-voting obscurantists, ignorant deplorables and knavish right-wing media pundits are raising doubts about the vaccine would have been oozing skepticism.
    — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 12 July 2021
Definition of knavish
Adjective
  • Is that the median voter assumes everyone is corrupt already?
    — Bluesky Social, Bluesky Social, 11 Mar. 2025
  • While Democrats have tried to put human faces on the ranks of the federal employees who have been abruptly fired, inviting some to sit in the gallery at the president's speech to Congress, Trump has portrayed the workforce with a broad brush as bloated, unproductive and even corrupt.
    — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2025
Definition of corrupt
Adjective
  • Michelle Yeoh Yeoh may be in her villain era, but there's nothing sinful about her Louvre look.
    — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The dominant Christian theology of the Middle Ages held that wealth was inherently sinful in a world where most people toiled in terrible poverty.
    — Brian Klaas, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025
Definition of sinful
Adjective
  • Ben Stiller even makes a brief cameo as the evil nursing home orderly, Hal.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2025
  • The series about six Canadian superheroes saving the world from giant evil robots has an all-Canadian cast that includes Cobie Smulders voicing the role of Niagara Falls, Kevin McDonald as the Canadian prime minister and Charles Demers as Poutine, a French Canadian crime fighter.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2025
Definition of evil
Adjective
  • And so Rose, immortal on the field, with a bat, was judged immoral off it by the saints who guard baseball’s gate.
    — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The campaign materials were unequivocal: Worley believed LGBT influences in society were immoral.
    — Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2025
Definition of immoral
Adjective
  • Tampa Bay is one of the most crooked places in America, according to fraud report data from the Federal Trade Commission.
    — Martin Vassolo, Axios, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Talley also said the pathway of the bullet as the pathologist in the case testified disproves any legal theory that Ferguson’s arm was crooked at a 45-degree angle.
    — Hetty Chang, NBC News, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of crooked
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“Blackguardly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blackguardly. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.

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