dastardly

Meaning of dastardly

adjective
  1. wicked and cruel.
    pirates and their dastardly deeds

mid 16th century (in the sense ‘dull or stupid’): from dastard in the obsolete sense ‘base coward’.

Information about dastardly

  • It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of dastardly

das-tardly

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
  • dastardly is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

dastardly synonyms

Meaning dastard:

dastard

Meaning evil or morally wrong:

wicked

Meaning profoundly immoral and wicked:

evil

Meaning grossly unfair and morally wrong:

iniquitous

Meaning (of a person or wrongful act, especially a crime) utterly odious or wicked:

heinous

Meaning relating to, constituting, or guilty of wicked or criminal behaviour:

villainous

Meaning characteristic of the Devil, or so evil as to be suggestive of the Devil:

diabolical, diabolic

Meaning extremely cruel or unpleasant:

fiendish

Meaning deliberately cruel or violent:

vicious

Meaning capable of or intending to murder; dangerously violent:

murderous

Meaning extremely brutal:

barbarous

Meaning wilfully causing pain or suffering to others, or feeling no concern about it:

cruel

Meaning of the very darkest colour owing to the absence of or complete absorption of light; the opposite of white:

black

Meaning suggestive of or arising from evil; sinister:

dark

Meaning suffering from decay:

rotten

Meaning (typically of an action or activity) wicked or criminal:

nefarious

Meaning extremely unpleasant:

vile

Meaning wicked or immoral:

foul

Meaning having the ugly or frightening appearance of a monster:

monstrous

Meaning causing indignation or disgust; offensive:

shocking

Meaning shockingly bad or excessive:

outrageous

Meaning horrifyingly wicked:

atrocious

Meaning causing moral revulsion:

abominable

Meaning deserving censure or condemnation:

reprehensible

Meaning deserving hatred and contempt:

despicable

Meaning extremely bad or unpleasant:

execrable

Meaning having or showing a willingness to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain:

corrupt

Meaning having lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal and desirable; showing evidence of decline:

degenerate

Meaning unprincipled:

reprobate

Meaning involving immoral or dishonourable actions and motives; arousing moral distaste and contempt:

sordid

Meaning morally corrupt; wicked:

depraved

Meaning (of a person or a way of life) overindulging in sensual pleasures:

dissolute

Meaning failing to conform to standards of moral virtue or acceptable conduct:

bad

Meaning the lowest part or edge of something, especially the part on which it rests or is supported:

base

Meaning intend to convey or refer to (a particular thing); signify:

mean

Meaning unscrupulous or dishonest:

low

Meaning behaving or prone to behave in an untrustworthy, deceitful, or insincere way:

dishonest

Meaning having or showing no moral principles; not honest or fair:

unscrupulous

Meaning (of a person or their behaviour) not acting in accordance with moral principles:

unprincipled

Meaning acting or done in a secret or dishonest way:

underhand

Meaning characteristic of a dishonest or unprincipled person:

roguish

Meaning bent or twisted out of shape or out of place:

crooked

Meaning foul-smelling:

stinking

Meaning covered or marked with an unclean substance:

dirty

Meaning situated in or full of shade:

shady

Meaning very unpleasant:

beastly

Meaning outstandingly bad; shocking:

egregious

Meaning (of a person or their actions) criminal; villainous:

flagitious

dastardly antonyms

Meaning belonging by rank, title, or birth to the aristocracy:

noble

Meaning deserving approval and admiration:

praiseworthy

Words that rhyme with dastardly

awkwardly, backwardly, bastardly, bayardly, billiardly, blackguardly, blizzardly, boardly, buzzardly, cowardly, dizzardly, dotardly, downwardly, eastwardly, forebackwardly, forwardly, frowardly, galliardly, haggardly, haphazardly, hardly, heavenwardly, homewardly, inwardly, laggardly, leewardly, leftwardly, niggardly, northeastwardly, northwardly, northwestwardly, onwardly, outwardly, overforwardly, rearwardly, rightwardly, seawardly, sluggardly, southeastwardly, southwardly, southwestwardly, standardly, stewardly, stinkardly, straightforwardly, towardly, unawkwardly, unforwardly, unfrowardly, unniggardly

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