dastardly
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Synonyms & Antonyms for dastardly
Synonyms
chicken, chicken-livered, chickenhearted, cowardly, craven, gutless, lily-livered, milk-livered [archaic], poltroon, pusillanimous, recreant, spineless, unheroic, yellow
Antonyms
brave, courageous, daring, dauntless, doughty, fearless, gallant, greathearted, gutsy, hardy, heroic (also heroical), intrepid, lionhearted, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, valiant, valorous
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In what many consider a career-best performance, Fonda plays a reclusive beekeeper slowly who pulls his dysfunctional family back together, but not without having to fight his son’s previous dastardly cohorts. From writer/director Victor Nunez. — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, "Peter Fonda leaves mark on the South with films like ‘Easy Rider,’ ‘Ulee’s Gold’," 17 Aug. 2019 Strong’s Kendall, the ineffectual Hamlet to his father’s more dastardly Lear, went on a drug bender that led to the drowning death of a waiter at Shiv’s wedding. — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, "Succession Is Better Than Ever," 11 Aug. 2019 Starting with Olivo’s Satine and Tveit’s Christian, and continuing through Tam Mutu’s dastardly Duke and Sahr Ngaujah’s affecting Toulouse-Lautrec, the voices gift-wrap the songbook in consistent pleasurability. — Peter Marks, Washington Post, "Will you love ‘Moulin Rouge!’ as a stage musical? Well, you’ll certainly fall in like.," 25 July 2019 The 23-year-old Texan’s swagger is one of the intangibles that, combined with a smoking fastball and dastardly change-up, makes a special night seem possible any time his turn in the rotation comes up. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Paddack takes no-hitter into eighth, Padres hold on to beat Marlins," 18 July 2019 The execution of this dastardly plot, as the movie presents it in CGI-heavy hyperreality, is harrowing and assaultive. — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, "Review: Disney's New The Lion King Is Beautiful But Soulless," 11 July 2019 In effect, this dastardly illusionist is a maker of persuasive computer-graphic action scenes akin to those that Marvel movies are based on, and these effects serve two purposes for their master villain. — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, "Review: “Spider-Man: Far from Home” Presents the Illusion of a Good Movie," 1 July 2019 Participants will be in the Victorian Parlor of the Storyteller’s Cottage, finding clues and solving riddles and codes to determine the identity of a dastardly murderer. — courant.com, "Community News For The Farmington Valley Edition," 6 July 2019 Reports have been that his slider remains as dastardly as ever. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Padres notes: Dinelson Lamet’s return set; Wil Myers back in lineup," 4 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'dastardly.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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