rascality

Pat was quite hardened in rascality now and they went.

Rascality male and female is prowling in view of him.

In this kind of comedy, rascality gets most of the laughs.

Confidence, energy, and rascality radiated from him as if he had a marching band in his heart.

But this history of financial rascality and inanity is handled in a lighter spirit.

"It may be only a piece of rascality that you have in your head," said the father with his eyes opened wide in surprise.

Cheever seems more moved by a beautiful sunrise than by the rascality of government officials, and he may be right.

Their rascality and general dubiousness was so transparent that he could not understand how any one could be taken in by them.

So, however, with steel-besom, Rascality is brushed back into its dim depths, and the streets are swept clear.

Morgan called Yerkes' coup "the greatest rascality and conspiracy I ever heard of".

(The term was new in the early 1880's and suggested a degree of rascality.)

If the governor proves himself intelligent and capable, people tend to be willing to indulge a fair amount of rascality on his part.

The charming rascality of the stories went well beyond the reality of a commercial shipping business, but they brought widespread fame.

They had informants in the computer underground and years of experience in dealing with high-tech rascality that seemed to grow ever more sophisticated.

Rascality rejoices; women trim themselves with tricolor.

Though the settlement was a church community for at least a decade after its founding, it was not entirely free of rascality and legal clashes.

They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettiness, without being either good businessmen or fine judges of literature.

Even in a man utterly devoid of moral sense there remains an appreciation of rascality which, being conventional, is perfectly clear.

How much of its strength, which was of the imagination merely, has fled; Rascality having looked plainly in the King's face, and not died!

He complains of thirst; half- drunk Rascality offers him a bottle, he drinks of it.

True Tales from the Annals of Crime and Rascality (1951)

The human heart, Luther says, is deceitful, knowing how to adorn oneself finely while concealing one's rascality.

Rascality has slipped its muzzle; and now bays, three- throated, like the Dog of Erebus.

(Self-denial, honor, piety) is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

Carefree or immoral rascality positions the picaresque hero as a sympathetic outsider, untouched by the false rules of society.