Rascality
[ræs'kæliti]
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal; mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud.
(n.) The poorer and lower classes of people.
Editor: Wendell
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Knavery, knavishness, wickedness, villany, dishonesty, trickery, chicane, chicanery.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect.
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Examples
- There was a rakish, vagabond smartness, and a kind of boastful rascality, about the whole man, that was worth a mine of gold. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Shortly after, the rascality of a business partner developed itself by the announcement of a failure. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Typist: Lolita