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How to pronounce blighter in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms cuss, gadfly, pest, pesterer
Type of tormentor, persecutor, tormenter
Has types nudnik, nudnick
Type Words
Synonyms bloke, chap, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, gent, lad
Type of male, male person
Has types dog

Examples of blighter

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Simon may be a blighter, but he comes about his opinions honestly and openly.
From the freep.com
Poor little blighter can probably expect some tinnitus as a result.
From the guardian.co.uk
Poor blighter, that's the risk with players returning from injury.
From the themercury.com.au
He probably has enough to worry about, the poor little blighter.
From the hecklerspray.com
That butterfly is a complex little blighter, you may well have triggered the double-dip recession.
From the guardian.co.uk
Scott Borthwick, poor blighter, might be asked to subdue India's finest with his attacking leg spin.
From the independent.co.uk
Then you get a creaky floorboard, and the little blighter looks up and starts wailing his head off.
From the expressandstar.com
No it won't get rid of the spaky little blighter but at least it will force him to change his name again.
From the expressandstar.com
The next, you're tumbling and some blighter has cut the rope.
From the guardian.co.uk
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  • Pest: a persistently annoying person
  • Chap: a boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at the door"; "he's a likable cuss"; "he's a good bloke"
  • This is a list of prestige classes in the 3rd edition of the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game. This list includes content for both the original 3rd edition and the 3.5 revision.
  • One who blights; An unnamed person, usually male, often contemptuously
  • Person who is regarded with contempt, irritation, or pity and may be considered a pest.
  • Old fashioned or outdated slang for a contemptible person, who is more commonly called a bugger; also, a chum, chap, or mate
  • 1. a scoundrel or unprincipled person, esp. a man. 2. someone who spoils things for others.
  • Adj. Rather outdated now, blighter is a more refined, more upper-class version of bugger.
  • In episode 4 of series 1, The Hunger Strike, Tuppy refers to Angela as "a little blighter" when describing the argument he had with her to Bertie. A "blighter" is a contemptible person, or someone held in low regard, or, more mildly, someone who is persistently annoying.