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
"Keep your rogueries and rascalities for the auld generation ye hae assisted to ruin; but leave the young anes alane to mind ither matters than dicing and horse-racing."
From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever
How blandly does he forgive the rascalities of your servants and the robberies of your tradesmen!
From One Of Them by Charles James Lever
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
Guilds, with their rivalries, their rascalities, are continually broiling.
From Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett
Low-bred and vulgar, he had made a fortune by petty knavery and small rascalities.
From City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston by George Thompson
