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But as Janet Malcolm would say, ‘Being aware of your rascality doesn’t excuse it.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2023
Newton, known to kiddies as Long John Silver in Disney’s Treasure Island, could project a manly rascality, but the demonic obsessiveness of Javert is outside his skill set.
From Time ● Dec. 30, 2012
Not, you understand, that Jarvis wants us all to be squeaky clean and incapable of general rascality – a term coined by philosopher Alan Watts, of whom he's a fan.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 2, 2012
Arthur Schoepenhauer wrote well on the subject 160 years ago: "Anonymity is the refuge for all literary and journalistic rascality," he suggested.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 23, 2011
It is dangerous, with such a firm in our midst, to be guilty even of genteel rascality.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
Titus Vespasianus emulated Nero in his early rascalities; but having donned the imperial purple, he cast away his evil companions and was accounted good as well as great.
From The Spinners by Phillpotts, Eden
He is, it is true, tolerably actual; he shares with the fabliau-writers and the authors of Renart a firm grasp on the perennial rascalities and meannesses of human nature.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George
He shakes off his rascalities as he does his rheumatism, when he quits the foggy climate of England, and emerges spotless and without stain upon the shores of Ostend or Boulogne.
From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James
During the débacle continuing from that day to this, the exposed rascalities of swindling corporations have shown how full the world still is of sheep eager to be fleeced, of geese to be plucked.
From The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. by Various
I have lived in Italy—in exile, so that I should not be troubled with his schemes and rascalities.
From A Coin of Edward VII A Detective Story by Hume, Fergus
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