(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.
Sneak
Definition:
(v. i.) To creep or steal (away or about) privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company.
(imp. & p. p.) To act in a stealthy and cowardly manner; to behave with meanness and servility; to crouch.
(v. t.) To hide, esp. in a mean or cowardly manner.
(n.) A mean, sneaking fellow.
(n.) A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; -- called also grub.
Example Sentences:
(1) They’ve already collaborated with folks like DOOM, Ghostface Killah and Frank Ocean; I was lucky enough to hear a sneak peek of their incredible collaboration with Future Islands’ Sam Herring from their forthcoming album.
(2) In a sneak preview of the findings, Howard Reed of Landman Economics, who was commissioned to do the work, told a meeting this week that "most of the gain" from raising the income tax allowance goes to "families who aren't very poor in the first place", and instead increasing tax credits for working low-income families was the "best targeted way of encouraging work among lone parents and workless couples".
(3) Robben's penalty was so well placed that it sneaked in despite Casillas's guessing right and almost reaching his own post.
(4) The French love Malick's artistry and mystery and he continued to play the recluse by not showing up for his press conference or red carpet, although I'm told he has been here, staying at the famed Colombe d'Or in St-Paul-de-Vence and that he did sneak in to watch at least some of his own film's premiere.
(5) They systematically denied the boy meals and tortured him when he tried to sneak food before brutally beating him to death at their Coventry home.
(6) MPs have voted to allow fracking under Britain’s national parks, drawing accusations that the government has sneaked the measure through parliament without a proper debate.
(7) Sneaking a 1-0 win (like they did last time) probably won't be enough, because Chile would still fancy their chances in the final game against the Netherlands, who will more than likely be through already by that stage.
(8) The row between the BBC and LSE broke on Saturday when the university accused the corporation of deception and of using its students as human shields to sneak into North Korea.
(9) Beijing has lodged a formal complaint with Pyongyang after a North Korean army deserter sneaked across the border and killed four Chinese villagers with a handgun.
(10) 1.28am BST Heat 15-20 Spurs, 3:53 remaining in 1st quarter Tony Parker sneaks through two defenders to untie it.
(11) Only PCs running Windows can be infected but the CryptoLocker malware can be hidden in any executable attachment or sneak on to your computer via a driveby download from a disreputable or infected website.
(12) Yeah, as I said, come back from the dead.” I have managed to get my hands on some of the correspondence that’s been going back and forth, and can give you a sneak preview of the ideas.
(13) 16) St Louis Rams Last season: 7-8-1 Needs: Wide receiver, safety, running back, defensive tackle Pick: Tavon Austin, wide receiver, West Virginia Undersized at 5ft 8½in, Austin is nevertheless the best receiver in this year's draft, a jet-heeled playmaker who could well sneak into the top 10.
(14) At least director JJ Abrams had a sense of humour about the hype machine when he teased a "sneak peek" of a scanty three frames of Star Trek Into Darkness on Conan O'Brien.
(15) In the past, he explains, 'encroachers' failed to respect the park's boundaries, sneaking into the forest to gather firewood and fell trees for timber.
(16) Experimental evidence documents the roles of host immunosuppression (genetic or environmental), immunoresistance at the cellular level, "sneaking through" (i.e., growth of a tumor to irreversible size prior to the mobilization of an appropriate immune response), lack of antigenic recognition, and blocking enhancement type reactions.
(17) The bars will be easiest to cut after being chilled (but there's no shame in sneaking a few bites when they are warm).
(18) Meanwhile, here's Justin Kavanagh with a sneak preview of activities in the Real dressing room during the break: "Word has it that the Special One has left a note in the Real dressing room that reads GONE TO GET MY HAIR DONE.
(19) North Korea prefers sneak attacks, like the torpedo in March 2010 that sank the South Korean navy ship Cheonan : 46 died.
(20) I go out as often as I can, at least once a month if possible, and I keep a "go bag" in the boot of my car ready with all my camping gear on standby should I get the chance to sneak off.