MEANING
1. Showing contemptible cowardice.
2. Wicked or cruel in a particularly underhanded way.
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- dastardly retreat
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The ballad condemned his dastardly retreat.
He feared being judged dastardly for fleeing.
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Primary category: fear. Forms: Comparative more dastardly; superlative most dastardly where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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