Dastard vs Diabolical - What's the difference?
dastard | diabolical |
A malicious coward; a dishonorable sneak.
* Shakespeare
meanly shrinking from danger, cowardly, dastardly
* 1843 , '', book 3, ch. IV, ''Happy
As adjectives the difference between dastard and diabolical
is that dastard is meanly shrinking from danger, cowardly, dastardly while diabolical is extremely wicked or cruel.As a noun dastard
is a malicious coward; a dishonorable sneak.As a verb dastard
is to dastardize.dastard
English
Noun
(en noun)- You are all recreants and dastards , and delight to live in slavery to the nobility.
Adjective
(en adjective)- Observe, too, that this is all a modern affair; belongs not to the old heroic times, but to these dastard new times. ‘Happiness our being’s end and aim’ is at bottom, if we will count well, not yet two centuries old in the world.
References
*The Free Dictionary: Dastard
