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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
It drew to itself, as the great festering centre of corruption, all the known rascalities of the previous generation, and assigned them to active duty in its service.
From Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 by George W. Julian
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 George Saintsbury
Low-bred and vulgar, he had made a fortune by petty knavery and small rascalities.
From City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston by George Thompson
Then," giving a knowing look at the Court, "we are to understand that you employ dishonest people to work for you, even after their rascalities are known?"—"Of course!
From Law and Laughter by George A. (George Alexander) Morton
The result is a compound of vulgar rascalities and impotent Byronics.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
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