blackguard:

(plural: ‘blackguards‘; pronunciation: in most cases the letters ‘ck’ are silent – ’black…guard’ — ‘blagaad’; however, there are cases when the letters ‘ck’ are said as in “black”)

a very bad person, without character or conduct;

a person who speaks filthy language,

e.g.

When her daughter told her that she was going to marry Michael, Anna said to her, “Who? Michael? Oh, no! He’s such a blackguard…you can never be happy with him!”

Kim is such a blackguard that nobody likes to argue with her because she uses very foul language when she suspects that she’s losing.

The only thing you can do to keep blackguards at bay is to completely avoid them.

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