rascality

But as Janet Malcolm would say, ‘Being aware of your rascality doesn’t excuse it.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2023

Newton, known to kiddies as Long John Silver in Disney’s Treasure Island, could project a manly rascality, but the demonic obsessiveness of Javert is outside his skill set.

From Time ● Dec. 30, 2012

Not, you understand, that Jarvis wants us all to be squeaky clean and incapable of general rascality – a term coined by philosopher Alan Watts, of whom he's a fan.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 2, 2012

Arthur Schoepenhauer wrote well on the subject 160 years ago: "Anonymity is the refuge for all literary and journalistic rascality," he suggested.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 23, 2011

With N. P. Thomas, a Ranger who was one of his closest friends, he was sent to deal with a plague of rascality in Amarillo, in the Texas Panhandle.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

"He'd better not undertake any of his rascalities or he will find himself in hot water."

From The Young Bank Messenger by Horatio Alger

His own relatives had been straitened or impoverished by the man's rascalities, and the fact was not calculated to strengthen his loyalty to his employer.

From Sevenoaks by J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Holland

He was of an inventive turn and had patented—of course at considerable expenditure—a thing or two; but by some crafty twist of the law's subtle rascalities, others had managed to reap the benefit.

From The Sign of the Spider by Bertram Mitford

Titus Vespasianus emulated Nero in his early rascalities; but having donned the imperial purple, he cast away his evil companions and was accounted good as well as great.

From The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts

The concubitant of his granddaughter Audi Thakombau was Ratu Beni, chief of Naitasiri, but for various rascalities he had been deported to the island of Ono.

From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson