Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "afskuwelik" word tipies gedefinieer as lafhartig, oneerbaar of verraderlik. Dit word dikwels gebruik om optrede of gedrag te beskryf wat as skelm, onhandig of gemeen beskou word.
Diverted from his object by this interruption, and maddened by the murder he had just witnessed, Magua buried his weapon in the back of the prostrate Delaware, uttering an unearthly shout as he committed the dastardly deed.
His accession to the throne, or rather his usurpation of the sovereignty, a hundred and seventy-one years before the coming of Christ his attempt to plunder the temple of Diana at Ephesus his implacable hostility to the Jews his pollution of the Holy of Holies and his miserable death at Taba, after a tumultuous reign of eleven years, are circumstances of a prominent kind, and therefore more generally noticed by the historians of his time than the impious, dastardly, cruel, silly, and whimsical achievements which make up the sum total of his private life and reputation.
Eilidh, take a cover position behind the next pillar down, towards the approach of these dastardly devils.
There must be something about this place that makes them feel safe to do their dastardly deeds here.
