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

I will not now stop to relate how I became reduced to such abject wretchedness, but I must do myself the justice to say that my downfall was produced by the rascalities of others.

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

His own relatives had been straitened or impoverished by the man's rascalities, and the fact was not calculated to strengthen his loyalty to his employer.

From Sevenoaks by J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Holland

On account of swindling and petty rascalities, he has often been punished, and the police have their eye upon him.

From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Gustav Freytag

Formerly a merchant in the Portuguese settlement of Delagoa Bay, his rascalities have landed him in outlawry, and he has taken his daughter with him into exile.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford

Giles wondered if she intended to tell him some of Morley's rascalities.

From A Coin of Edward VII A Detective Story by Fergus Hume