a. and adv. [f. as prec. + -LY.]
A. adj. Characteristic of a blackguard; ruffianly, brutal; scurrilous, ‘low.’
1847. in Craig.
1863. Dicey, Federal St., II. 17. The essentially blackguardly nature of the … war.
1881. Miss Yonge, Lads & L., v. 177. The most blackguardly boys in the place.
B. adv. After the manner of a blackguard.
1827. Scott, in Lockhart (1839), IX. 146. Want of that article blackguardly called pluck.
