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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
The concubitant of his granddaughter Audi Thakombau was Ratu Beni, chief of Naitasiri, but for various rascalities he had been deported to the island of Ono.
From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson
Day after day there were broadsides in the World relentlessly denouncing the rascalities of the Lamson outfit.
From Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated by Thomas William Lawson
Giles wondered if she intended to tell him some of Morley's rascalities.
From A Coin of Edward VII A Detective Story by Fergus Hume
On account of swindling and petty rascalities, he has often been punished, and the police have their eye upon him.
From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Gustav Freytag
Guilds, with their rivalries, their rascalities, are continually broiling.
From Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett
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