rascal
Example Sentences
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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
“What if the rascal’s a bit wild now and then? Noisy and destructive, like a young pup, what? How would you feel about that?”
From Literature
I learned more than I’d care to know about being a knave and a rascal and committing roguery of all sorts, but minding our longitude and latitude was enough to keep me busy.
From Literature
“We look like fools to our friends,” wrote a New York Times columnist, “rascals to our enemies and incompetents to the rest.”
From Literature
You don’t need to have Luna sport a mustache, though, to see in his rascal of a character hints of revolutionary icons from Latin America.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
