Which of the following is an informal definition of dastardly? The dictionary says dastardly means wicked, but my experience with Saturday morning cartoons taught me that the definition should also
include an oily mustache or eve patch, as well. To this day, I still suspect that anyone with facial hair or one eye is up to no good.
Fairy tales are full of princes and dragons and dastardly deeds
Today's Word of the Day is dastardly, an adjective meaning rotten or despicable.
Disney movies are a comfort in bleak times. The dastardly villain tries to carry out an evil scheme, but is always defeated by the noble hero (or
heroine!) in the end.

Read the following excerpt from "dark tower" by claude mckay before you choose your answer. "we shall not always plant while others reap the golden increment of bursting fruit, nor always countenance, abject and mute, that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; not everlastingly while others sleep shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, not always bend to some more subtle brute. we were not made eternally to weep. the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark, white stars, is no less lovely being dark; and there are buds that cannot bloom at all in light, but crumple, piteous, and fall. so in the dark we hid the heart that bleeds, and wait, and tend our agonizing needs." in context, the expression "the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark,/ white stars, is no less lovely being dark; " is best interpreted as a. the light of the stars overpowers the black of night b. the black of night overpowers the light of the stars c. black and white contribute equally to the beauty of the night sky d. black and white continuously compete for prominence in the night sky