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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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Etymology of 'Rascality'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... Lavalette to prepare the way, and in the afternoon he took me to see him. I was well enough pleased to see the man, whose rascality had destroyed the infamous work of many years. He welcomed me with great politeness, and as soon as we were alone he shewed me a ...

— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

... France from Peru. He considered it from every possible point of view, and when at last he heard of the final disposition which it had been determined to make of the gold, he considered it from the point of his own cupidity and innate rascality. ...

— Mrs. Cliff's Yacht • Frank R. Stockton

... has held an important position in many political campaigns. The details that comprise this problem have been indicated to some extent in the preceding pages—the speculative character of much railroad building, the rascality of some railroad promoters, the corrupting influence which the railroad has too frequently exerted in legislatures and even in the courts. The attempts to subject this new "monster" to government regulation and control have furnished ...

— The Railroad Builders - A Chronicle of the Welding of the States, Volume 38 in The - Chronicles of America Series • John Moody

... in the hills. He had tried his hand at every kind of rascality. Cattle had disappeared, horses rustled and Ramon was suspected of knowing more about them than he should. Yet it was Kie Wicks behind him, threatening and driving him on, that made Ramon the ...

— The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure • Lizette M. Edholm

... then, detailing this rascality on the part of Orry, that had reached the King just before that respecting the Abbe d'Estrees. The two disclosed a state of things that could not be allowed any longer to exist. Our ministers, who, step by step, had been deprived of all control over the affairs of Spain, profited ...

— The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete • Duc de Saint-Simon

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