rascal

Example Sentences

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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

The main reasons this update throws a brick is because the miscast Harlow is hardly the charming rascal that Harrelson's character, Billy Hoyle, was.

From Salon • May 18, 2023

Adah closed her eyes and thought for a second and then quoted the whole thing out: ‘“The King of Kings aroused the anger of Antiochus against the rascal.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver