rascal
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While Shoyo is a charismatic and ambitious rascal, Karasuno High and their various opponents provide a wide and varied array of winning characters who are willing to play the long game to win your heart.
From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2025
Stellan Skarsgård inhabits this rascal perfectly: bluff, hearty, a bit arrogant and slightly pathetic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
That spirit came through in the show’s rascal of a main character and spilled into living rooms all over the country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
Onstage, Epps convincingly plays that rascal who has charmed his way out of trouble.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2024
“Richard was searching the hold of a steamship bound for Tennessee when he found this rascal hiding below,” Jamison said.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
The most notable stock-market research over the weekend comes from academia, where researchers studied those rascals in Congress and their proclivity to trade.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 1, 2025
Dare we say, some rascals even made fun of her over it.
From Slate ● May 1, 2025
“Giving time to kids is precious and mandatory today. Like it or not like it, but these rascals go through a whole lot of pressures today that we never had before.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2024
She added: “So it was less like, ‘I want to go do this big movie,’ and more, ‘I want to play in the sand pit with these rascals.’
From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2023
"It doesn't please me to take orders from common rascals," Prince Brat said coldly.
From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman
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