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
It is dangerous, with such a firm in our midst, to be guilty even of genteel rascality.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
Day after day there were broadsides in the World relentlessly denouncing the rascalities of the Lamson outfit.
From Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated by Thomas William Lawson
How blandly does he forgive the rascalities of your servants and the robberies of your tradesmen!
From One Of Them by Charles James Lever
Titus Vespasianus emulated Nero in his early rascalities; but having donned the imperial purple, he cast away his evil companions and was accounted good as well as great.
From The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts
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
Giles wondered if she intended to tell him some of Morley's rascalities.
From A Coin of Edward VII A Detective Story by Fergus Hume
