Example sentences for: dastardly

How can you use “dastardly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • And most curious of all, how exactly could this dastardly crime have been carried off?

  • I had imagined the pronunciation of dastardly was restricted to two choices: either a long or else a sharp first a . Yet here was the Home Secretary offering a third.

  • On various episodes he is a member, along with Bluebeard and the Grim Reaper, of "the Jury of the Damned"; he takes part in a snake-bludgeoning (in a scandal exposed by a Bob Woodward book); his enemies list is used for dastardly purposes; even his dog Checkers is said to be bound for hell.

  • Gary Oldman leads five dastardly followers of Radek in posing as a Russian film crew, and a flirtatious moron of a White House aide lets them on the plane.

  • The transportation bill is porky, the squashing of the campaign finance bill was a dastardly use of procedural rules, the tobacco settlement may go through, but only because everyone wants to get their paws on the proceeds.


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