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

And now, Mr. Chairman, I will jist go a little into the particulars of the rogueries and rascalities of this same Yankee.

From Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by Simms, William Gilmore

Godefroy stood by him with a courageous fidelity that redeemed his past rascalities.

From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis

Day after day there were broadsides in the World relentlessly denouncing the rascalities of the Lamson outfit.

From Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated by Lawson, Thomas William

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 Thomson, Basil

"Keep your rogueries and rascalities for the auld generation ye hae assisted to ruin; but leave the young anes alane to mind ither matters than dicing and horse-racing."

From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Lever, Charles James