rascality

  • 1Rascality — Ras*cal i*ty (r[a^]s*k[a^]l [i^]*t[y^]), n.; pl. {Rascalities} (r[a^]s*k[a^]l [i^]*t[i^]z) [1913 Webster] 1. The quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal; mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud. [1913 Webster] 2. The poorer and lower… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 2rascality — index artifice, deception, ill repute, improbity, knavery, mischief, misdoing Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton …

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  • 3rascality — [ras kal′ə tē] n. 1. the character or behavior of a rascal 2. pl. rascalities a low, mean, or dishonest act …

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  • 4rascality — noun The behavior of a rascal. The two of them engaged in all kinds of rascality in college …

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  • 5rascality — rascal ► NOUN ▪ a mischievous or cheeky person. DERIVATIVES rascality noun rascally adjective. ORIGIN originally in the senses «a mob» and «member of the rabble»: from Old French rascaille rabble …

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  • 6rascality — noun (plural ties) Date: circa 1577 1. rabble 2. a. the character or actions of a rascal ; knavery b. a rascally act …

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  • 7rascality — /ra skal i tee/, n., pl. rascalities. 1. rascally or knavish character or conduct. 2. a rascally act. [1570 80; RASCAL + ITY] * * * …

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  • 8rascality — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. knavery, villainy, roguery, blackguardism. See improbity. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. roguery, villainy, baseness, meanness, knavery, wickedness, culpability, guile, profligacy, chicanery, treachery,… …

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  • 9rascality — ras·cal·i·ty || ræ skælÉ™tɪ /rɑː n. roguishness, dishonesty, mischievousness …

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  • 10rascality — n. Knavery, knavishness, wickedness, villany, dishonesty, trickery, chicane, chicanery, fraud …

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