Associations to the word «Dastard»

Wiktionary

DASTARD, noun. A malicious coward; a dishonorable sneak.
DASTARD, adjective. Meanly shrinking from danger, cowardly, dastardly
DASTARD, verb. To dastardize.

Dictionary definition

DASTARD, noun. A despicable coward.
DASTARD, adjective. Despicably cowardly; "the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on...December 7th"- F.D. Roosevelt.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats