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rascality
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun rascality has 3 senses
- rascality(n = noun.attribute) prankishness, roguishness - the trait of indulging in disreputable pranks; Array is a kind of badness, mischievousness, naughtiness
- rascality(n = noun.attribute) shiftiness, slipperiness, trickiness - the quality of being a slippery rascal; Array is a kind of dishonesty
- rascality(n = noun.act) devilment, devilry, deviltry, mischief, mischief-making, mischievousness, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan - reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others; Array is a kind of misbehavior, misbehaviour, misdeed
has particulars: blaze, hell, monkey business, hooliganism, malicious mischief, vandalism
CIDE DICTIONARY
rascality, n.
- The quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal; mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud. [1913 Webster]
- The poorer and lower classes of people. [1913 Webster]"The chief heads of their clans with their several rascalities" [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
rascality
Improbity
N improbity, dishonesty, dishonor, deviation from rectitude, disgrace, fraud, lying, bad faith, Punic faith, mala fides, Punica fides, infidelity, faithlessness, Judas kiss, betrayal, breach of promise, breach of trust, breach of faith, prodition, disloyalty, treason, high treason, apostasy, nonobservance, shabbiness, villainy, villany, baseness, abjection, debasement, turpitude, moral turpitude, laxity, trimming, shuffling, perfidy, perfidiousness, treachery, double dealing, unfairness, knavery, roguery, rascality, foul play, jobbing, jobbery, graft, bribery, venality, nepotism, corruption, job, shuffle, fishy transaction, barratry, sharp practice, heads I win tails you lose, mouth honor, dishonest, dishonorable, unconscientious, unscrupulous, fraudulent, knavish, disgraceful, wicked, false-hearted, disingenuous, unfair, one-sided, double, double- hearted, double-tongued, double-faced, timeserving, crooked, tortuous, insidious, Machiavelian, dark, slippery, fishy, perfidious, treacherous, perjured, infamous, arrant, foul, base, vile, ignominious, blackguard, contemptible, unrespectable, abject, mean, shabby, little, paltry, dirty, scurvy, scabby, sneaking, groveling, scrubby, rascally, pettifogging, beneath one, low-minded, low-thoughted, base-minded, undignified, indign, unbecoming, unbeseeming, unbefitting, derogatory, degrading, infra dignitatem, beneath one's dignity, ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike, unknightly, unchivalric, unmanly, unhandsome, recreant, inglorious, corrupt, venal, debased, mongrel, faithless, of bad faith, false, unfaithful, disloyal, untrustworthy, trustless, trothless, lost to shame, dead to honor, barratrous, dishonestly, mala fide, like a thief in the night, by crooked paths, Int, O tempora!, O mores!, corruptissima respublica plurimae leges.
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