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Rascalities

Rascality \Ras*cal"i*ty\ (r[a^]s*k[a^]l"[i^]*t[y^]), n.; pl. Rascalities (r[a^]s*k[a^]l"[i^]*t[i^]z)

  1. The quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal; mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud.

  2. The poorer and lower classes of people. [Obs.]

    The chief heads of their clans with their several rascalities
    --T. Jackson.

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rascalities

n. (plural of rascality English)

Usage examples of "rascalities".

The minister related many a touching incident in the lives of the departed, too, which illustrated their sweet, generous natures, and the people could easily see, now, how noble and beautiful those episodes were, and remembered with grief that at the time they occurred they had seemed rank rascalities, well deserving of the cowhide.