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rascality

[ ra-skal-i-tee ]

noun

plural rascalities.
  1. rascally or knavish character or conduct.
  2. a rascally act.


rascality

/ °ùÉ‘Ëˈ²õ°ìæ±ôɪ³Ùɪ /

noun

  1. mischievous, disreputable, or dishonest character, behaviour, or action
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of rascality1

First recorded in 1570–80; rascal + -ity
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I thought about the tongue-in-cheek lyrics that di Rosa handed out to the museum’s earliest guests in the late 1990s: “Art here is a healthy remedy / with a laugh at rascality not posing as ponderosity.â€

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"The rascality of the rich man has been used to influence Congress to rig the tax law with purposeful defectiveness to provide loopholes for the wealthy," Scripps told one of his editors.

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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.

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He was hopelessly naive regarding the rascality unleashed by the sudden postwar arrival of industrialism entangled with government.

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Aaron Reynolds’s “Creepy Carrots!†offered that perfect tension between banality and rascality — not to mention that it confirmed our hatred of carrots.

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