rascal

Example Sentences

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While Shoyo is a charismatic and ambitious rascal, Karasuno High and their various opponents provide a wide and varied array of winning characters who are willing to play the long game to win your heart.

From Salon • Dec. 26, 2025

Stellan Skarsgård inhabits this rascal perfectly: bluff, hearty, a bit arrogant and slightly pathetic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

You don’t need to have Luna sport a mustache, though, to see in his rascal of a character hints of revolutionary icons from Latin America.

From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2025

Onstage, Epps convincingly plays that rascal who has charmed his way out of trouble.

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2024

He suspected now that he had fallen in with a rascal, and he thought uncomfortably that he had brought only a little money with him.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien