rascality

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

Poor Nan! with thy fun and thy rascalities, thy strong affections and thy fatal gift of beauty, where does thy head rest now?

From The House by the Church-Yard by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

I have lived in Italy—in exile, so that I should not be troubled with his schemes and rascalities.

From A Coin of Edward VII A Detective Story by Fergus Hume

I will not now stop to relate how I became reduced to such abject wretchedness, but I must do myself the justice to say that my downfall was produced by the rascalities of others.

From City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston by George Thompson

The concubitant of his granddaughter Audi Thakombau was Ratu Beni, chief of Naitasiri, but for various rascalities he had been deported to the island of Ono.

From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson

He shakes off his rascalities as he does his rheumatism, when he quits the foggy climate of England, and emerges spotless and without stain upon the shores of Ostend or Boulogne.

From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever