"[I]f I had known that Pine was such a blighter as to leave me nothing, I'm hanged if I'd have allowed him to be buried in such decent company."
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Blighter
//ˈblaɪtɚ//
Synonyms for "blighter" (62 found)
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Closest matches (13)
Strong matches (18)
Related words (31)
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23 translations across 10 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- swernoot noun (person)
Bulgarian
1 entries- мерзавец noun (person)
Czech
4 entries- mizera noun (person)
- parchant noun (person)
- zmetek noun (person)
- šmejd noun (person)
Finnish
2 entries- kiusankappale noun (person)
- lurjus noun (person)
French
1 entries- tête à claques noun (person)
German
3 entries- Nichtsnutz noun (person)
- Taugenichts noun (person)
- Tunichtgut noun (person)
Hungarian
4 entries- alak noun (person)
- csórikám noun (person)
- ipse noun (person)
- pacák noun (person)
Polish
2 entries- gagatek noun (person)
- ziółko noun (person)
Russian
3 entries- гад noun (person)
- мерзавец noun (person)
- негодяй noun (person)
Swedish
1 entries- rackare noun (person)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
He knew that the old blighter had to be humored in certain small ways.
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I tackled the blighter squarely.
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Translation: there's still some hope for you, poor stammering blighter.
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