Crossword clues for rascally
rascally
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rascally \Ras"cal*ly\ (r[a^]s"kal*l[y^]), a. Like a rascal; trickish or dishonest; base; worthless; -- often in humorous disparagement, without implication of dishonesty.
Our rascally porter is fallen fast asleep.
--Swift.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Like a rascal. adv. In the manner of a rascal.
WordNet
adj. playful in an appealingly bold way; "a roguish grin" [syn: devilish, roguish]
lacking principles or scruples; "the rascally rabble"; "the tyranny of a scoundrelly aristocracy" - W.M. Thackaray; "the captain was set adrift by his roguish crew" [syn: roguish, scoundrelly, blackguardly]
Usage examples of "rascally".
To my mind Croce has behaved in a rascally manner, to say the least of it, for in spite of your many charms he had no right to count on me in the matter.
His attempts to impose real disciplinethe firm foundation of which any army needs must be builton the rascally galloglaiches and the unhung criminals who were known as bonaghts had resulted ultimately in mutinies, murders and attempted murders, and arson.
Next morning Count Torriano came to see me, thanked me for my punctuality, congratulated himself on the pleasure he expected to derive from my society, and told me he was very sorry we could not start for two days, as a suit was to be heard the next day between himself and a rascally old farmer who was trying to cheat him.
The rascally prisoners crowded round me to read what I was writing, and when they could not understand it they were impudent enough to ask me to explain it to them.
Latin against that rabble, the plague of Italy, and against the inn-keeper who had been rascally enough to open the door.
I was obliged to take one of these rascally tribe into my service, and I wish he had broken his leg on his way to my house.
He told us triumphantly that he had beaten the rascally postillions, and had warded their stones off.
The rascally fellow prevaricated, and tried hard to induce me to believe that Medini had not plotted the breaking of the bank, but his eloquence was in vain.
I asked him to find me a trusty fellow to track out the rascally Possano, but the worthy man would not hear of it.
By this light, I wonder that any man is so mad, to come to see these rascally tits play here -- They do act like so many wrens or pismires -- not the fifth part of a good face amongst them all.
Had some rascally schelm not stabbed my horse I should have swept your head off as a boy cuts thistles mit a stick.
Still Taken with the Cabala-- Piccolomini Forges a Bill of Exchange: Results I Am Fleeced, and in Danger of Being Assassinated--Debauch with the Two Paduan Girls-- I Reveal A Great Secret To Esther--I Bate the Rascally St.
And poisonous to all such ancestral inspirations are the rascally devices of shroffs and money-changers.
They had no raw furs with them, but their garmerits would be useful for my family and some of my rascally crew.
Still Taken with the Cabala-- Piccolomini Forges a Bill of Exchange: Results I Am Fleeced, and in Danger of Being Assassinated--Debauch with the Two Paduan Girls-- I Reveal A Great Secret To Esther--I Bate the Rascally St.