1830, Thomas Macaulay, Review of Robert Southey's edition of Pilgrim's Progress, in the Edinburgh Review
A man whose manners and sentiments are decidedly below those of his class deserves to be called a blackguard.

2006, Jan Freeman, 'Blaggards' of the year – Boston Globe
"Arrr, keelhaul the blaggards!" wrote Ty Burr in the Globe last summer, pronouncing sentence on the malefactors who brought us the second "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie.

Persons who passed each other in boats upon the Thames used to blackguard each other, in a trial of wit

The Southern Region takes, in the main, a candid line with its public. … An ill-informed attempt to blackguard the railway publicly is likely to see the complainant put politely—but very firmly—in his place.

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