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blackguard
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n 1: someone who is morally reprehensible; "you dirty dog" [syn:
cad, bounder, blackguard, dog, hound, heel]
v 1: subject to laughter or ridicule; "The satirists ridiculed
the plans for a new opera house"; "The students poked fun
at the inexperienced teacher"; "His former students roasted
the professor at his 60th birthday" [syn: ridicule,
roast, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib,
make fun, poke fun]
2: use foul or abusive language towards; "The actress abused the
policeman who gave her a parking ticket"; "The angry mother
shouted at the teacher" [syn: abuse, clapperclaw,
blackguard, shout]
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bowlegged
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adj 1: have legs that curve outward at the knees [syn: bandy,
bandy-legged, bowed, bowleg, bowlegged]
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dogged
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adj 1: stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour
determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all
the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but
tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of
opinion" [syn: dogged, dour, persistent,
pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding]
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haggard
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adj 1: showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or
suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her
mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from
sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face";
"shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young
face"- Charles Dickens [syn: careworn, drawn,
haggard, raddled, worn]
2: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;
"emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men
and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small
pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim
concentration" [syn: bony, cadaverous, emaciated,
gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted]
n 1: British writer noted for romantic adventure novels
(1856-1925) [syn: Haggard, Rider Haggard, Sir Henry
Rider Haggard]
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jagged
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adj 1: having a sharply uneven surface or outline; "the jagged
outline of the crags"; "scraggy cliffs" [syn: jagged,
jaggy, scraggy]
2: having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though
gnawed [syn: erose, jagged, jaggy, notched,
toothed]
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laggard
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adj 1: wasting time [syn: dilatory, laggard, poky,
pokey]
n 1: someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who
lags behind [syn: dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger,
trailer, poke]
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legged
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adj 1: having legs of a specified kind or number; "four-legged
animals"; "a peg-legged man" [ant: legless]
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niggard
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n 1: a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend [syn:
niggard, skinflint, scrooge, churl]
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ragged
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adj 1: being or dressed in clothes that are worn or torn;
"clothes as ragged as a scarecrow's"; "a ragged tramp"
2: worn out from stress or strain; "run ragged"
3: having an irregular outline; "text set with ragged right
margins"; "herded the class into a ragged line"
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rugged
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adj 1: sturdy and strong in constitution or construction;
enduring; "with a house full of boys you have to have
rugged furniture" [ant: delicate]
2: having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or
wrinkles) in the surface; "furrowed fields"; "his furrowed
face lit by a warming smile" [syn: furrowed, rugged]
[ant: unfurrowed]
3: topographically very uneven; "broken terrain"; "rugged
ground" [syn: broken, rugged]
4: very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution; "a
rugged competitive examination"; "the rugged conditions of
frontier life"; "the competition was tough"; "it's a tough
life"; "it was a tough job" [syn: rugged, tough]
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sluggard
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n 1: an idle slothful person [syn: sluggard, slug]
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waterlogged
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adj 1: (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under
foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky
lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the
sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous" [syn: boggy,
marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy,
sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged]
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barelegged
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adj 1: having the legs uncovered by clothing; "barelegged
children on the beach"
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unsugared
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adj 1: with no sugar added
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begged
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bewigged
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pegged
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