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noun

Rascality n. (pl. rascalities)

The quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal; mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud.

The poorer and lower classes of people. (Obs.) "The chief heads of their clans with their several rascalities"

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rascality" Quotes from Famous Books

... want to enter upon other topics, and to leave all this rascality alone awhile, I am forced to narrate what happened at the termination of this five years' contract. Instead of abiding by their promised word, those two rogues declared they meant to give me up my farm, and would not keep it any longer upon lease. I not unnaturally complained, but they retorted ...

— The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini • Benvenuto Cellini

... service done him to slaughter those who were not able to defend themselves. Go; get yourself better instructed in the meaning of the Koran." He was a thorough Corsair, with the rough code of honour, as well as the unprincipled rascality of the sea-rover. ...

— The Story of the Barbary Corsairs • Stanley Lane-Poole

... which is a revelation from God of justice, of fair dealing, of scorn of mean advantages; which contemns the selling of stock which one KNOWS is going to fall, to a man who BELIEVES it is going to rise, as much as it would contemn any other form of rascality or of injustice or of meanness — it is this which must in these latter days organize its insurrections and burn up every one of the cunning moral castles from which Trade sends out its forays upon the ...

— Sidney Lanier • Edwin Mims

... We must compromise with him, if we can find him in time. Of course, even if the bank closed, we would pay everything when there was time to realize. But that is not the point. It would mean trouble and disaster, and would probably result in other failures all through one man's rascality." ...

— The Face And The Mask • Robert Barr

... was surprised. I sat there open-mouthed. It is extraordinary how a man may become suddenly aware of unsuspected heights and depths in human life. It may be that I have always been less sophisticated than most. I am continually overlooking the shabbiness and rascality of the world, I find, in spite of the early apprenticeship which I served among business friends. I have often envied men this alertness of mind, this ever-present consciousness of the obliquity of human nature. And ...

— Aliens • William McFee

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