blackguard

(blăg'ərd, -ärd')
n.

1. A thoroughly unprincipled person; a scoundrel.
2. A foul-mouthed person.

tr.v., -guard·ed, -guard·ing, -guards.
To abuse verbally; revile.

blackguardism black'guard·ism n.
blackguardly black'guard·ly adj. & adv.

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A cynical view of the world by Ambrose Bierce

n.

A man whose qualities, prepared for display like a box of berries in a market -- the fine ones on top -- have been opened on the wrong side. An inverted gentleman.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - slyngel, tølper, skurk
v. tr. - sjofle, behandle slyngelagtigt

Nederlands (Dutch)
bandiet, smeerlap, uitschelden

Français (French)
n. - fripouille
v. tr. - s'encanailler

Deutsch (German)
n. - Bandit, Ganove
v. - Lump schimpfen, als Lump behandeln

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - κάθαρμα, παλιάνθρωπος

Italiano (Italian)
bandito

Português (Portuguese)
n. - vilão (m)

Русский (Russian)
негодяй, мерзавец

Español (Spanish)
n. - sinvergüenza, canalla
v. tr. - injuriar, vilipendiar

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - skurk, slyngel

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
无赖, 流氓, 辱骂, 行为如流氓

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 無賴, 流氓
v. tr. - 辱罵, 行為如流氓

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 건달
v. tr. - ~에서 깡패 같은 말씨를 쓰다, 욕지거리하다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ごろつき
v. - ののしる

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) نذل, سافل‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮נבל‬
v. tr. - ‮ניבל את פיו‬

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