Dastardly

(a.) Meanly timid; cowardly; base; as, a dastardly outrage.

安德烈整理

• He was a coward, from head to foot; and showed his dastardly nature through his sullenness and mortification, as much as at any time of his mean life. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• What does our dastardly contemporary mean? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• It was dastardly of the woman, said Clym. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The instantaneous and dastardly destruction of our battleship, The Maine, with 250 of her crew, in Havana harbor, February 15, 1898, by one of these agencies, is a harrowing illustration. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• It was easier, and less dastardly on the whole, for a wife to play such a part toward her husband. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• They'll spare the women; but my man tells me that they have taken an oath to give no quarter to the men--the dastardly cowards. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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