rascally

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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"
- W
In the manner of a rascal
Thackaray; "the captain was set adrift by his roguish crew
playful in an appealingly bold way; "a roguish grin"
Like a rascal
Like a rascal; trickish or dishonest; base; worthless; often in humorous disparagement, without implication of dishonesty
If you describe someone as a rascally person, you mean that they behave badly and are wicked or dishonest. They stumble across a ghost town inhabited by a rascally gold prospector
lacking principles or scruples; "the rascally rabble"; "the tyranny of a scoundrelly aristocracy"
roguishly, mischievously, like a scoundrel
lacking principles or scruples; "the rascally rabble"; "the tyranny of a scoundrelly aristocracy" - W
rascal
Someone who is naughty; either playfully mischievous or a troublemaker, a dishonest person, a scoundrel

If you have deer in the area, you may have to put a fence around your garden to keep the rascals out.

rascal
low(ly), part of or belonging to the common rabble
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a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
rascal
Of or pertaining to the common herd or common people; low; mean; base
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Originally applied in the chase to a lean, worthless deer, then a collective term for the commonalty, the mob; and popularly to a base fellow Shakespeare says, “Horns! the noblest deer hath them as huge as the rascal” [deer] Palsgrave calls a starveling animal, like the lean kine of Pharaoh, “a rascall refus beest” (1530) The French have racaille (riff-raff) “Come, you thin thing; come, you rascal ”- Shakespeare: 2 Henry IV , v 4 Rascal Counters Pitiful or paltry s d Brutus calls money paltry compared with friendship, etc “When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous, To lock such rascal counters from his friend Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts, Dash him to pieces ” Shakespeare Julius Caesar iv 5 Rasher A slice, as a rasher of bacon
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a noun, not an adjective
rascal
One of the rabble; a low, common sort of person or creature; collectively, the rabble; the common herd; also, a lean, ill-conditioned beast, esp
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{i} villain, scoundrel, rogue; mischievous person or animal
rascal
one who is playfully mischievous
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A mean, trickish fellow; a base, dishonest person; a rogue; a scoundrel; a trickster
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If you call a man or child a rascal, you mean that they behave badly and are rude or dishonest. What's that old rascal been telling you?
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