blackguardise

English

Verb

blackguardise (third-person singular simple present blackguardises, present participle blackguardising, simple past and past participle blackguardised)

1. Alternative form of blackguardize
   • 1860 April 28, “Law and Crime”, in Illustrated Times, volume 10, number 265, page 268:

     Nothing tends so much to blackguardise the sport of the ring as its alleged illegality.

   • 1863, John Young, Lays from the Ingle Nook: A Collection of Tales, Sketches, &c, page 98:

     "An' they that winna buy his gear, May pass his door - their duty's clear; While they that never patronize him, Hae nae richt, Tib, to blackguardise him.” Tibbie. “Blackguardise him! what for no? Is't no thro' him the torrents flow?"

   • 1978, John Maclean, Nan Milton, In the Rapids of Revolution, page 82:

     If the workers strike to get more money they are denounced as drunkards and shirkers, and are held responsible for a war failure absolutely due to the incompetence of the men who blackguardise them.