NOUN
- the trait of indulging in disreputable pranks
- the quality of being a slippery rascal
- reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others
How To Use rascality In A Sentence
- _Educated rascality is infinitely more of a menace to society than ignorant rascality_. Pushing to the Front
- It breeds more trouble, more neglect, more idleness, more rascality, more stealing, & more lieing up in the quarters & more everything that is wrong on a plantation than all else put together . . . A Renegade History of the United States
- There was no remedy for what was called by Lord Lovat's friends, the "rascality" of the judges: -- and again this unworthy Highlander was driven from his own country to seek safety in the land wherein his offences had received their pardon. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.
- Stevenson and Kipling have proved its immense popularity, with the whole brood of detective stories and the tales of successful rascality we call "picaresque" Our most popular weekly shows the broad appeal of this class of fiction. The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture
- And the visitor would sheepishly admit both, his rascality and his obedience, by saying: ‘We are sarkari badmashes.’
- The way he did it brought him under the just accusation of being guilty of every kind of rascality known to politics. XVI. Reform by Humane Touch
- Their rascality and general dubiousness was so transparent that he could not understand how any one could be taken in by them. Chapter I
- He shall learn that this kind of rascality is not permitted by the nobles of France. The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette
- And h'yar's the knavery of the thing; sir! the unpronounceable rascality, sir! Nick of the Woods
- The probability is, that this single experience educated him so far that his next employer would have no occasion to complain of his "rascality;" and I very much doubt if any amount of A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy