What's the difference between bastard and dastard?

Bastard


Definition:

  • (n.) A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.
  • (n.) An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the sirups that / already had several boilings.
  • (n.) A large size of mold, in which sugar is drained.
  • (n.) A sweet Spanish wine like muscadel in flavor.
  • (n.) A writing paper of a particular size. See Paper.
  • (a.) Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, n., note.
  • (n.) Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; -- applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so.
  • (n.) Of an unusual make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a bastard culverin.
  • (n.) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
  • (v. t.) To bastardize.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Because of course nothing is more destructive of the sanctity of his own vocation than the suggestion that we simply don't need this kind of conservation – if that's what it really is – at all; that on the contrary, the entire "relaunch" is simply the bastard offspring of an orgiastic union between Mammon and science, consummated on the Stonehenge altar stone and observed by the fee-paying public.
  • (2) Simon Parker, a senior lecturer at the University of York, told the New Statesman that, during the recent dispute over lecturers' pay, his mobile phone number was posted on Facebook, with the instruction to students to give him a call if they felt they had been "fucked over" by the "lazy bastards in the AUT".
  • (3) An officer claimed McKenna had shouted: "Fucking Yankee bastards out."
  • (4) A group of young men and women calling themselves the Salopards (Bastards) and wearing pink dungarees "to show you can be against gay marriage without being homophobic", was also there to "defend the family".
  • (5) The Duchess of Cambridge is too thin, has a “bastard of a job” and was pressured into getting pregnant a second time, Germaine Greer says.
  • (6) "Don't be such an ungrateful bastard," God snapped.
  • (7) ", but nothing helped, there was so much other noise – both the helicopter above us and the bastard's rifle.
  • (8) A nonchromaffin paraganglioma was found in the periglandular connective tissue of the glandula suprarenalis of a sheep-dog bastard and characterized by histological and immunohistochemical techniques.
  • (9) Behind us we could still hear shooting, the screams, the laughter of the bastard as he shot, and his shout to us: "You won't get away!"
  • (10) She ended up having six children with him and he was a real bastard to her, left her when I was a baby.
  • (11) Jermain Defoe strikes in 89th minute for Sunderland to draw with Liverpool Read more Before the mass departure the Kop loudly sang, “Enough is enough, you greedy bastards, enough is enough” – which was roundly applauded by all four sides of Anfield, including the Sunderland supporters – before launching into ’You’ll Never Walk Alone’, usually reserved for the last few moments of a game.
  • (12) a) synovial bursa ( schleimbeutel ) b) sneeze guard ( Spukschutz ) c) snotty-nosed brat – literally snot spoon ( rotzloeffel ) d) grumpy bastard – literally lump of vomit ( kotzbrocken ) 4,000 Jet-setters complain of a) Jetleg b) Jetleck c) Jetlag d) Jetlack 8,000 Who, if a contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, would definitely not call the Joker?
  • (13) For instance: I'd place a bet that if our Paralympic football team loses in the first round, they will still be described as "inspirational"; if the regular England team had done the same at Euro 2012 they would be called a bunch of bastards.
  • (14) Men in public life, meanwhile, are increasingly unsure whether it’s worse to embrace feminism (hypocritical bastard!)
  • (15) Swing by its tasting room and you can try Burnley Bastard Mild brewed by Real Cask, or Nonsensical – an IPA from Brewery Creek.
  • (16) "We told the mujahideen to leave it to us ordinary Fallujans, but those bloody bastards, the sheikhs and the clerics, are busy painting some bloody mad picture of heaven and martyrs and the victory of the mujahideen," said Ali, another refugee.
  • (17) Former leader Michael Howard, dubbed by John Major as one of the Eurosceptic "bastards", voiced strong backing.
  • (18) This has been encouraged by the press' standard strike narrative: these selfish bastards are striking, this is bad, and it will affect you in this awful unacceptable way of maybe making you slightly late for work.
  • (19) His bastard Ramsay has shown his colors (whatever color is for sadism), but Roose – who abstains from alcohol and only offers a smirk at Lady Stark here, a frown with Jaime Lannister there – is still a cypher.
  • (20) "I am now able to tell my staff there is light at the end of the tunnel rather than some bastard antagonising us with a torch."

Dastard


Definition:

  • (n.) One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a poltroon.
  • (a.) Meanly shrinking from danger; cowardly; dastardly.
  • (v. t.) To dastardize.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It blamed "confrontation maniacs" for "[making their] servants of conservative media let loose a whole string of sophism intended to hatch all sorts of dastardly wicked plots and float misinformation".
  • (2) Garak has his own agenda and takes things to a more murderous extreme, forcing Sisko to re-evaluate the dastardly and very un-Starfleet tactics.
  • (3) Meanwhile, the possibility that Mr Juncker might now offer the financial services job to the new British commission nominee, Jonathan Hill, is variously seen as an olive branch, which it manifestly would be, or a dastardly Brussels power grab, which it isn’t.
  • (4) Europe, for all its reputation as some kind of dastardly machine for the promotion of crypto-communism, is really just a hothouse environment in which the promised fruits of neoliberalism are forced into ripening more quickly.
  • (5) That's the dastardly genius of the protocol: it is unrelenting – and effective.
  • (6) His dastardly plot involved cutting Gotham City off from the rest of the world and turning it into an anarchic hellhole.
  • (7) Unlike Black Ops 2, which at least used its drone warfare storyline to question the wisdom of such weaponry in its own comic-book fashion, Ghosts never once suggests that giant city-crushing space spears are a bad idea - at least until those dastardly Hispanic hordes get their hands on them.
  • (8) finale, 70 million Americans were hooked on his signature style of dastardly one-liners and references to anyone of the female sex as "darlin", usually before he gave said "darlin" a good seeing to.
  • (9) As it happens, Edith auditioned for, and won, the part of Rooster, Annie's dastardly kidnapper – her traditionally male kidnapper.
  • (10) One of the appeals of Flynn's writing is how willing she is to make every single person in a novel unsympathetic; dastardly, even.
  • (11) Then, 25 minutes in, those dastardly film-makers engineer a shift: it turns out that the two undergrads they picked to follow are from less privileged backgrounds, outsiders trying to break into a social world that isn't theirs.
  • (12) "Has the statue in your accompanying picture hit on a novel way of ensuring that the much maligned jabulani stops misbehaving in such a dastardly fashion?"
  • (13) On the eve of the killings, he called for action against miners engaged in "dastardly criminal" conduct.
  • (14) But I still admired his quick and accurate decision-making and his skilful feigned attempt at a tackle, if not his dastardly lack of sportsmanship and fair play.” You might just be the only one all right and by admitting that he was “out of position then outpaced” you can see why he could well be City’ undoing this afternoon if a player like Johnson, for example, gets to take him on today.
  • (15) Consider this dastardly request to fix an interest rate that is disappointingly underscored with...a winky face emoticon.
  • (16) By the time Craig had made his way back home, Jason (alright, Dev helped with any detective work that required adult supervision) had assembled all the pieces of Karl's dastardly jigsaw.
  • (17) "It is clear Ramaphosa was directly involved by advising what was to be done to address these 'dastardly criminal actions', which he says must be characterised as such and dealt with effectively."
  • (18) "Yer all orphans and bastards," snarls dastardly foreman Charlie Crout (Craig Parkinson) as oppressed urchins gulp and clench their bumcheeks.
  • (19) A background check to prevent criminals or those with mental illness from purchasing guns: a dastardly attack on civil liberties.
  • (20) In contrast with Breaking Bad's murderous drug kingpin and Mad Men's philandering ad executive, Woodhull is a good man who, in 1778, becomes a spy in order to help George Washington defeat the dastardly British redcoats.