What is "rapscallions"

Usage examples of "rapscallions".

Amina's assiduity seeps into me, and more ominous things‑clattering footsteps, my mother's need to plead for money until the napkin in my father's lap began to quiver and make a little tent‑and the cremated ashes of Arjuna Indiabikes, and a peepshow into which Lifafa Das tried to put everything in the world, and rapscallions perpetrating outrages.

I judged she would be proud of me for helping these rapscallions, because rapscallions and dead beats is the kind the widow and good people takes the most interest in.

I judged she would be proud of me for helping these rapscallions, because rapscallions and dead-beats is the kind the widow and good people takes the most interest in.