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

Low-bred and vulgar, he had made a fortune by petty knavery and small rascalities.

From City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston by George Thompson

He is, it is true, tolerably actual; he shares with the fabliau-writers and the authors of Renart a firm grasp on the perennial rascalities and meannesses of human nature.

From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury

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 Thomas William Lawson

“He’d better not undertake any of his rascalities or he will find himself in hot water.”

From A Cousin's Conspiracy A Boy's Struggle for an Inheritance by Horatio Alger

The minor rascalities do not intrude themselves on a scene of such grandeur; and though cheating, knavery, and fraud are there, they are not foreground figures.

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Charles James Lever