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Definition of Blackguardisms
1. blackguardism [n] - See also: blackguardism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blackguardisms
Literary usage of Blackguardisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by Herbert George Wells (1897)
"I have no taste for politics, for the blackguardisms of fame, for philanthropy,
for sport. What was I to do? And for this I had become a wrapped-up mystery, ..."
2. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1898)
"... ornamental blackguardisms, and ridicule of death and life. In the long-run a
graver face would have been of better augury. King Friedrich's soldiers ..."
3. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"... with a riband of honour, an excellent man I am told, a good father of a
family—but superior to all the rest by the extreme bathos of his blackguardisms. ..."
4. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1864)
"... ornamental blackguardisms, and ridicule of death and life. "In the long-run
a graver face would have been of better "augury. King Friedrich's soldiers ..."
5. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1904)
"But it is " without taste, without finesse, without invention ; a botching up of
stale blackguardisms about Moses and Christ and the rest ; it has no ..."
6. The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by Herbert George Wells (1897)
"I have no taste for politics, for the blackguardisms of fame, for philanthropy,
for sport. What was I to do? And for this I had become a wrapped-up mystery, ..."
7. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1898)
"... ornamental blackguardisms, and ridicule of death and life. In the long-run a
graver face would have been of better augury. King Friedrich's soldiers ..."
8. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"... with a riband of honour, an excellent man I am told, a good father of a
family—but superior to all the rest by the extreme bathos of his blackguardisms. ..."
9. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1864)
"... ornamental blackguardisms, and ridicule of death and life. "In the long-run
a graver face would have been of better "augury. King Friedrich's soldiers ..."
10. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1904)
"But it is " without taste, without finesse, without invention ; a botching up of
stale blackguardisms about Moses and Christ and the rest ; it has no ..."
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