serious uses of the word 'dastardly'

serious uses of the word 'dastardly'

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1576   A. Fleming tr. C. Plinius Novocomensis in Panoplie Epist. 251   A feareful, cowardly, and dastardly loute.
1603   R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 333   Loosing courage continually, and daily growing more base and dastardly.
1761   D. Hume Hist. Eng. II. xxix. 157   The Swiss infantry..behaved in a dastardly manner and deserted their post.
1855   T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 207   The most dastardly and perfidious form of assassination.
1872   C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David III. Ps. lv. 12. 19   The slanders of an avowed antagonist are seldom so mean and dastardly as those of a traitor.
1894   N.E.D. at Dastardly,   Mod. A dastardly outrage.

Reverend Joel Parker threatened to sue Stowe for her “dastardly attack” on his character.

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I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire.

… unfortunately, with a very few exceptions, our crew was composed of a parcel of dastardly and mean-spirited wretches, divided among themselves, and only united in enduring without resistance the unmitigated tyranny of the captain.

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Title Double Dan, the Dastard, Or, The Pirates of the Pecos
Issue 256 of Beadle's dime library
Author Samuel Stone Hall
Publisher Beadle & Adams, Publishers, 1883
Length 29 pages

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Feel this might be something still used a lot in Indian English:

Maoists Ambush Politicians' Convoy
Congress party president Sonia Gandhi denounces what she called a "dastardly attack" on India's democratic values.

Javadekar condemns dastardly attack on Indian consulate in Afghanistan

Etc.

check

Iran ready to battle 'dastardly' EU sanctions

”I hope we reach the point where we will be able to meet all our nuclear needs inside the country so we won't need to extend our hand before others, specifically before the world's dastardly people," Ahmadinejad said. "For a gentleman, for a chivalrous nation, the most difficult moment is when he has a need to ask (for something) from a dastardly person.”

it’s unclear but assume ‘dastardly’ is favored translation for some word in farsi?

wasn't like the first "villain" in Eastenders often referred to as "dastardly"?