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dasht-e-kavir |
dasht-e-lut |
dassie |
dastard |
dastardliness |
dastardly
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dastardly
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective dastardly has 1 sense
- dastardly(s = adj.all) dastard - despicably cowardly; "the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on...December 7th" Derived forms noun dastard1, noun dastardliness1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
dastardly, adj. cowardly, despicable.
Derivative
dastardliness n.
Etymology
dastard base coward, prob. f. dazed past part. + -ARD, or obs. dasart dullard, DOTARD
ROGET THESAURUS
dastardly
Cowardice
N cowardice, pusillanimity, cowardliness, timidity, effeminacy, poltroonery, baseness, dastardness, dastardy, abject fear, funk, Dutch courage, fear, white feather, faint heart, cold feet, yellow streak, coward, poltroon, dastard, sneak, recreant, shy cock, dunghill cock, coistril, milksop, white liver, lily liver, nidget, one that cannot say 'boo' to a goose, slink, Bob Acres, Jerry Sneak, alarmist, terrorist, pessimist, runagate, coward, cowardly, fearful, shy, timid, timorous, skittish, poor- spirited, spiritless, soft, effeminate, weak-minded, infirm of purpose, weak-hearted, fainthearted, chickenhearted, henhearted, lilyhearted, pigeon-hearted, white- livered, lily-livered, milk-livered, milksop, smock-faced, unable to say 'boo' to a goose, dastard, dastardly, base, craven, sneaking, dunghill, recreant, unwarlike, unsoldier-like, in face a lion but in heart a deer, unmanned, frightened, Int, sauve qui peut!, every man for himself!, devil take the hindmost!, ante tubam trepidat, one's courage oozing out, degeneres animos timor arguit.
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