Thesaurus: blackguard

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1. n. The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the "black guard"; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army.
2. n. The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively.
3. n. A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough.
4. n. A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin.
5. v. t. To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.
6. a. Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language.
7. n. someone who is morally reprehensible
8. v. subject to laughter or ridicule
9. v. use foul or abusive language towards
10. 1. The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the "black guard"; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army. [Obs.] A lousy slave, that . . . rode with the black guard in the duke's carriage, 'mongst spits and dripping pans. Webster (1612). 2. The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively. [Obs.] 3. A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough. A man whose manners and sentiments are decidedly below those of his class deserves to be called a blackguard. Macaulay. 4. A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin. [Obs.] To revile or abuse in scurrilous language. Southey. Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language.
11. To revile or abuse in scurrilous language. Southey.
12. n:100 n someone who is morally reprehensible v subject to laughter or ridicule v use foul or abusive language towards