dastard

/ˈdæstərd/
noun
  1. A person who acts in a cruel or cowardly way, especially by harming others without facing them directly.
    • Only a dastard would spread lies about a friend instead of speaking to them honestly.
    • The newspaper called the anonymous hacker a dastard for stealing people's private information.
    • The villain in the story was a dastard who poisoned his rival from afar.
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