Dastard vs Rascal - What's the difference?
dastard | rascal |
A malicious coward; a dishonorable sneak.
* Shakespeare
meanly shrinking from danger, cowardly, dastardly
* 1843 , '', book 3, ch. IV, ''Happy
A dishonest person; a rogue; a scoundrel; a trickster.
A playfully mischievous person or creature; a troublemaker.
A member of a criminal gang in Papua New Guinea.
As nouns the difference between dastard and rascal
is that dastard is a malicious coward; a dishonorable sneak while rascal is a dishonest person; a rogue; a scoundrel; a trickster.As adjectives the difference between dastard and rascal
is that dastard is meanly shrinking from danger, cowardly, dastardly while rascal is low; lowly, part of or belonging to the common rabble.As a verb dastard
is to dastardize.As a proper noun Rascal is
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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
Derived terms
* dastardly * dastardnessrascal
English
Noun
(en noun)- That little rascal bit me!
- If you have deer in the area, you may have to put a fence around your garden to keep the rascals out.