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Word of the Day

blackguard \BLAG-uhrd\, noun:
1. A rude or unscrupulous person; a scoundrel.
2. A person who uses foul or abusive language.

adjective: Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, "blackguard language."
transitive verb: To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.

Douglas was not a saint, though, so his behaviour and attitude were, as he wrote, 'neither better nor worse than my contemporaries -- that is to say, [I became] a finished young blackguard, ripe for any kind of wickedness'. -- Douglas Murray, Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas

Bosie's ambition: "To clutch Life's hair, and thrust one naked phrase/ Like a lean knife between the ribs of Time."