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noun

Rascality n. (pl. rascalities)

The quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal; mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud.

The poorer and lower classes of people. (Obs.) "The chief heads of their clans with their several rascalities"

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Etymology of 'Rascality'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rascality" Quotes from Famous Books

... Veronica's friendly glances at Carlos, the fact that Rooksby had proposed to Veronica on the very day that Carlos had come again into the neighbourhood with the runners after him. I saw very well that there was no more connection between the Casa Riego and the rascality of Rio Medio than there was between Ralph himself and old drunken Rangsley on Hythe beach. There ...

— Romance • Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer

... the man, "let me tell you that I never before clapped eyes on the long piece of rascality you were seeking. He looked like one that had ...

— Salute to Adventurers • John Buchan

... looked very like the marabout stork, as you may see him at the Zoo, that raffish bird with the folds in his neck, the stained glaucous complexion, the bald head and the brown human eye. He had the same look of respectable rascality. The younger Fujinami showed signs of becoming exactly like him, although the parentage was by adoption only. He was not yet so bald. His black hair was patched with grey in a piebald design. The skin of the throat was at present merely loose, it did ...

— Kimono • John Paris

... that interested Eddie Deever far more than all else—Elias Droom himself and such of his experiences as he cared to relate. The rid man told stories about the dark sides of New York life, tales of murder, thievery, rascality high and low, and he told them with blood-curdling directness. The Walker wife-murder; the inside facts of the De Pugh divorce scandal; the Harvey family's skeleton—all food for the dime-novel producer. Eddie revelled in these recitals even ...

— Jane Cable • George Barr McCutcheon

... disappointed at not finding the black desperado, Nimbus Desmit, who was organizing his depraved followers to burn, kill, and ravish, and proposed to administer a moderate whipping to the fellow Eliab, who was really supposed to be at the bottom of all the other's rascality. These few hot-heads burst in the door of his cabin, but one of the oldest and coolest of the crowd rushed in and, at the imminent risk of his own life, rescued him from them. In order to bring him out into the light where he could be protected, he caught the baboon-like creature by his foot, ...

— Bricks Without Straw • Albion W. Tourgee

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