rascality
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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
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
How wide-spread was the delirium of the p. 151railway mania—what rascalities have been laid bare by the bursting of some of our insurance and other companies.
From About London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
Our follies and rascalities may remain hidden to others—but never to ourselves.
From The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie Three Plays by Edwin Björkman
Guilds, with their rivalries, their rascalities, are continually broiling.
From Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett
“He’d better not undertake any of his rascalities or he will find himself in hot water.”
From A Cousin's Conspiracy A Boy's Struggle for an Inheritance by Horatio Alger
