Protest that he wouldn't do such a dastardly thing?

It was indeed a dastardly thing they had done; perhaps the violence of ogre and sword would have been gentler.

The dastardly thing is that a year and a half will be spent on the contract.

This was a dastardly thing to do, creating a foreign-born subclass among legal residents.

But simply bundling them up and locking them away for years is a dastardly and scummy thing to do.

If he had been a hero, then wiping out his descendants seemed a dastardly thing to do.

Then he conceded: "Don and I have done dastardly things to each other.

"I'm not saying that I forgive you for the dastardly thing you did, but aren't you going to try to make me accept that summons?"

"Why in the world would I do a dastardly thing like that?"

The more people who know of this dastardly thing the sooner we shall recover the victims!