rascal
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Stellan Skarsgård inhabits this rascal perfectly: bluff, hearty, a bit arrogant and slightly pathetic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
A sort of Runyonesque rascal in his business affairs, Pecker came across as completely forthcoming on the stand.
From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2024
Onstage, Epps convincingly plays that rascal who has charmed his way out of trouble.
From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2024
The main reasons this update throws a brick is because the miscast Harlow is hardly the charming rascal that Harrelson's character, Billy Hoyle, was.
From Salon • May 18, 2023
Adah closed her eyes and thought for a second and then quoted the whole thing out: ‘“The King of Kings aroused the anger of Antiochus against the rascal.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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