dastard

Her father spends the movie in white, 25-piece suits and a dastard’s dark mustache, like he’s starring in the first half of “The Colonel Sanders Story.”

There’s villainy afoot, with a white-suited dastard scheming to lure you into a deadly trap back in the bush.

Theatergoers have reason to be amused: It seems that everyone but Othello is able to see through the obvious manipulations of this shameless dastard.

But they will never dare—the dastards, No!—

She will say that necessity knows no law, or some such dastard words.