What is "blackguards"

Usage examples of "blackguards".

Either the top brass had been optimistic in believing that we had mounted overwhelming force against a small, not fully developed Bug baseor the Blackguards had been awarded the spot where the roof fell in.

Zim got them to the surface, before the Blackguards were relieved and retrieved.

How did we know they were not on for piracy, their ship looked like a pirate, they looked like blackguards, to a man.

The poor, conceited blackguards of this ungracious earth have a fancy that there must be huge confusion and a mighty bobbery in nature, corresponding with that which is for ever going on in their own little spheres.

Is it true what little Hueh says, that both the blackguards fought you at once?

The gamekeepers, the fifty hay-makers in the great meadow, they were to enter the town from the top of Church Street, where they were to gather all the boys and blackguards they could.