Definition for Dastardly:

• treacherously cowardly; " the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on... December 7th"- F. D. Roosevelt

Synonyms for Dastardly:

• adj.

  •cowardly (adjective)
  • pigeonhearted,
  • weak-kneed,
  • Cowhearted,
  • mean,
  • study at cowardly,
  • recreant,
  • timorous,
  • softer,
  • having the willies,
  • sneaking,
  • shrinking,
  • no guts,
  • running scared,
  • Chicken-hearted,
  • lacking courage.
  •craven (adjective)
  • wimpier,
  • more poltroonish,
  • most chicken,
  • most wimpish,
  • mean spirited,
  • more wimpish,
  • wussier,
  • wussiest,
  • wimpiest,
  • more chicken,
  • most poltroonish.
  •ignoble (adjective)
  • scurvier,
  • in famous,
  • un washed,
  • dis-honorable,
  • most peasant,
  • de-generate,
  • more peasant,
  • menial,
  • de graded,
  • dis graceful,
  • dis-graceful,
  • de-graded,
  • un-washed,
  • dis honorable,
  • de generate,
  • scurviest.
  •recreant (adjective)
  • falsehearted.
  •rotten (adjective)
  • despicable,
  • contemptible,
  • underhanded.
  •shameful (adjective)
  • re-prehensible,
  • in temperate,
  • most shaming,
  • un-cleanest,
  • re prehensible,
  • re probate,
  • in-decent,
  • un clean,
  • un cleanest,
  • embarrassing,
  • de grading,
  • re-probate,
  • more shaming,
  • in-temperate,
  • more mortifying,
  • de-grading,
  • in decent,
  • un cleaner,
  • un-cleaner,
  • most mortifying.

• n.

  •
  • hateful,
  • cruel,
  • awful,
  • inhuman,
  • pitiless,
  • hard,
  • unkind,
  • uncharitable.
  •
  • fear,
  • chicken.
  •cowardly (noun)
  • cowardly.
  •dastardly (noun)
  • fearful,
  • coward.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • yellow-bellied,
  • faint-hearted,
  • lily-livered,
  • gutless,
  • chickenhearted,
  • pusillanimous.
  •
  • unmanly.

Paraphrases for Dastardly:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    cowardly, heinous.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    abhorrent, obnoxious, horrendous, brutal, repugnant, hideous, vicious, reprehensible, egregious, horrific, horrible.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    despicable, vile, ghastly, odious, loathsome, hateful, atrocious, abominable.

Antonyms for Dastardly:

• adj.

  • rotten
    respectable, honorable, worthy.
  • Other antonyms:
    nervy, daring, intrepid, fearless, lionhearted, audacious, cheeky, determined, plucky, hardy, brazen, spirited, spunky, heroic, resolute.

Dastardly Sentence Examples:

• Before he is aware of it other and stronger gusts duplicate the dastardly deed of the first wingless wizard of the plains, and the hapless voyager is left gasping.

• Then let me tell you, sir, that I consider it an outrage - a dastardly outrage.