rascality
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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
It is dangerous, with such a firm in our midst, to be guilty even of genteel rascality.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
"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
Poor Nan! with thy fun and thy rascalities, thy strong affections and thy fatal gift of beauty, where does thy head rest now?
From The House by the Church-Yard by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
"No one begins to know the extent of his rascalities, and you and Blake must catch him."
From A Wounded Name by King, Charles
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
Giles wondered if she intended to tell him some of Morley's rascalities.
From A Coin of Edward VII A Detective Story by Hume, Fergus
