(n.) The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the "black guard"; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army.
(n.) The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively.
(n.) A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough.
(n.) A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin.
(v. t.) To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.
(1) Here he is on the Nasty Party in 1835, in a letter to Catherine Hogarth (soon to take the name Dickens, as his wife): "... a ruthless set of bloody-minded villains... perfect savage... superlative blackguards..." Two days later he ended another letter: "P.S.
Unmitigated
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The last time policymakers resorted to such draconian measures was an unmitigated disaster: following the SEC's ban on naked short-selling of financial shares in late 2008, the S&P 500 index lost 21.5% of its value during the period of the veto.
(2) We share a responsibility to our future patients to address unmitigated climate change – described as “the biggest health threat of the 21st century” – and to advocate for a transition to a healthier, more sustainable economy.
(3) Myth 6: biofuels are always destructive to the environment Making some of our motor fuel from food has been an almost unmitigated disaster.
(4) They’re not going to be announcing, like they did at Carrier, that they’re closing up and they’re moving to Mexico.” So an unmitigated triumph for Trump?
(5) The Republican chairman of the House armed services committee, Californian Buck McKeon, castigated it as an unmitigated disaster.
(6) When he strokes the blank sheets the narrator notes his happiness: "Not for years, not since 1914 , had I witnessed an expression of such unmitigated happiness on the face of a German .
(7) The transfer window is currently six days old and so far it's been nothing short of an unmitigated, egregious waste of time.
(8) The chronic production of lipid peroxide-modified Lp(a) together with unmitigated cellular clearance by scavenger receptors may contribute to the accumulation of lipoprotein-derived lipid in macrophage-derived foam cells of the atherosclerotic reaction.
(9) The venture was a "flat, rank and unmitigated failure", wailed the man who had more or less invented popular journalism by creating the Daily Mail.
(10) "I don't see how anyone could invest in this company any longer," ISI Group analyst Brian Marshall told Associated Press, describing it as "an unmitigated train wreck".
(11) Ukip remains the great unknown Nigel Farage's Ukip conference was an unmitigated disaster.
(12) The display of cabinet solidity may not be all it seems: many know full well that their leader is an almost unmitigated electoral liability.
(13) On the first day back after the Christmas break, all that David Cameron could remember of December’s European Union summit was that it had been an unmitigated triumph.
(14) All that may happen is that prices of established dwellings go up less quickly than they would otherwise – and I think that would be an unmitigated good thing.” So now a line of economists, think-tanks, community groups and even Tony Abbott’s chair of the audit commission, Tony Shepherd, are on the record as calling for change to negative gearing and capital gains tax concessions.
(15) Phil Dorrell, director of retail consultants Retail Remedy From day one, Fresh & Easy was an unmitigated disaster for Tesco.
(16) Decision theory's role in medicine will lie between the extremes of naive optimism ("a Rosetta stone") and unmitigated pessimism ("a computerized Ouija board").
(17) The Case Against 8 – a documentary about the fight to overturn California's voter referendum that prohibited same-sex marriage for five years – leaves viewers with the unmitigated impression that Proposition 8 was overturned by a small group of very rich white people, the Great White Hope of Marriage Equality.
(18) 'Real fight starts now': Jeremy Corbyn's Brexit tweet prompts bruising response Read more Perhaps Brexit will be an unmitigated disaster – but even if it is, will the public blame the government and turn to the politicians who sought to block it in the first place?
(19) For the only western democracy without a human rights act or a developed constitutional underpinning of human rights, putting up our hand for a seat at the table looks like a piece of unmitigated presumption.
(20) This is the moment, in a life story of unmitigated misfortune, when you might expect that things would begin to improve.