This week’s theme
Words to describe people

This week’s words
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dastard
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PRONUNCIATION:

(DAS-tuhrd)

MEANING:

noun: A malicious, sneaking coward.

ETYMOLOGY:

Of uncertain origin. Earliest documented use: 1440.

USAGE:

“‘Your father must have been a dastard to have left your inheritance so tightly tied up,’ Taffy muttered.
‘No, he wasn’t,’ Luke admitted honestly. ‘He believed I had so much to learn about managing money that it would take until I was thirty-five to be fit for the responsibility.’”
Elizabeth Mansfield; Miscalculations; Jove Books; 2000.

See more usage examples of dastard in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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