Rascality
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Rascality is a noun meaning Rascals collectively; the rabble, the masses.
Meaning
Rascals collectively; the rabble, the masses.
More Meanings
- The behavior of a rascal; the quality of being a rascal.
Example Sentences
The two of them engaged in all kinds of rascality in college.
Shortly after, the rascality of a business partner developed itself by the announcement of a failure.
And the judgement of our inclinations and actions (the weightiest and hardest matter that is) we referre it to the idle breath of the vaine voice of the common sort and base raskalitie, which is the mother of ignorance, of injustice and inconstancie.
On an a priori view of Wakem's aquiline nose, which offended Mr. Tulliver, there was not more rascality than in the shape of his stiff shirt-collar, though this too along with his nose, might have become fraught with damnatory meaning when once the rascality was ascertained.
Word Forms
- rascalities
Synonyms for rascality
Depending on context, synonyms include mischief, roguery, devilment, roguishness, shenanigan, mischievousness.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include roguishness, mischievousness, roguery, mischief, devilment, prankishness.
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