Adjective : a dastardly act. From Dictionary.com.
Surprise could only marvel at the dastardliness of the deal. From Wordnik.com. [Stork Naked]
Jen - you never know what dastardliness you have until you try!. From Wordnik.com. [The WritingYA Weblog: Peddling Plots] Reference
She includes in her litany of blog dastardliness my argument that NPR is forbidding journalistic curiosity. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Jarvis: NPR Blames Us for its Problems: Insane] Reference
Also, he likes his band of dancing pirates and enjoys thinking up new insults with which to establish his dastardliness. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Global Home] Reference
He feels that techniques such as "adding needless internal links, creating PageRank-friendly URLs and distorting normal grammar" are all widely deployed with varying degrees of dastardliness. From Wordnik.com. [Search Engine Watch Blog] Reference
And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd; -- do you think that this national shame and dastardliness of heart are not written as legibly on every rivet of your iron armour as the strength of the right hands that forged it?. From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing] Reference
So many and such sufferings produced incredible dastardliness; and deserters escaped by night, in some cases throwing themselves down, at the risk of being killed, into the city-moat; in others getting down by help of a rope from the ramparts. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1] Reference
Wood doesn’t give us an ‘excessively simplistic definition of manipulation,’ he merely points out, in his London Review of Books article what McEwan is doing in his novel Black Dogs: McEwan exaggerates the dastardliness of fiction’s manipulations, and conflates his kind of storytelling with storytelling in general. From Wordnik.com. [2009 May 22 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS] Reference
Their dastardliness knows no bounds. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: GOP Boogeymen and Other Media Phantoms] Reference
But the dastardliness of such a trick!. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Witness] Reference
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