rascal

Example Sentences

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Right now, the rascal in him slumbers, briefly glimpsed now and again behind dark shades.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

Stellan Skarsgård inhabits this rascal perfectly: bluff, hearty, a bit arrogant and slightly pathetic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

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

He was obviously a rascal, but what a change it was to hear somebody laughing once in a while.

From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl