Definition of "blighter" [blighter]

• Chiefly British Slang A fellow, especially one held in low esteem. (noun)

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• "But the most important question: what do we call the blighter?"
• "The blighter was a blaze of mauve from the ankle-bone southward."
• "Of course if you refused you were a "blighter" of the worst description."