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roguery
Playful mischief
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  1. Playful mischief
  2. Malicious or reckless behaviour
  3. The behavior or an act of a rogue
villainy
Villainous conduct or action:
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  1. Villainous conduct or action:
  2. The fact or state of being villainous
  3. Evil or vicious character or behaviour.
baseness
The quality of being unworthy to hold virtues or value.
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  1. The quality of being unworthy to hold virtues or value.
meanness
A mean act; as, to be guilty of a meanness.
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  1. A mean act; as, to be guilty of a meanness.
  2. (Uncountable) The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.
knavery
The (mis)behaviour of a knave, boyish mischief.
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  1. The (mis)behaviour of a knave, boyish mischief.
  2. Behavior or an act characteristic of a knave; rascality; dishonesty
  3. Deceit, an unprincipled action.
guile
A trick or stratagem.
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  1. A trick or stratagem.
  2. Slyness and cunning in dealing with others
  3. Treacherous cunning; skillful deceit.
profligacy
(Countable) Careless wastefulness.
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  1. (Countable) Careless wastefulness.
  2. (Uncountable) Shameless and immoral behaviour.
chicanery
(Countable, law) A slick performance by a lawyer.
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  1. (Countable, law) A slick performance by a lawyer.
  2. The use of clever but tricky talk or action to deceive, evade, etc., as in legal dealings
  3. Deception by trickery or sophistry.
treachery
An act of perfidy or treason
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  1. An act of perfidy or treason
  2. Willful betrayal of fidelity, confidence, or trust; perfidy.
  3. Betrayal of trust, faith, or allegiance; perfidy, disloyalty, or treason
trickery
The act or practice of tricking; use of tricks; deception; fraud
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  1. The act or practice of tricking; use of tricks; deception; fraud
blackguardism
Blackguardly behaviour or language.
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  1. Blackguardly behaviour or language.
double-dealing
The act or practice of doing the opposite of what one pretends to do; duplicity; deceit
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  1. The act or practice of doing the opposite of what one pretends to do; duplicity; deceit
  2. Deceit or treachery
ruffianism
The behaviour of a ruffian.
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  1. The behaviour of a ruffian.
disreputability
The state of being disreputable.
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  1. The state of being disreputable.
  2. Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
devilry
Deviltry
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  1. Deviltry
  2. Black magic; witchcraft
  3. Evil or diabolic behavior; great wickedness or cruelty
deviltry
An act of mischief, cruelty, or witchcraft.
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  1. An act of mischief, cruelty, or witchcraft.
  2. Reckless mischief, fun, etc.
  3. Reckless mischief.
diablerie
Devilish conduct; deviltry.
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  1. Devilish conduct; deviltry.
  2. Lore about devils, diabolism, etc.
  3. Deviltry; mischief
high jinks
Tricky and/or humorous behavior
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  1. Tricky and/or humorous behavior
  2. Playful, often noisy and rowdy activity, usually involving mischievous pranks.
  3. Lively pranks; boisterous fun
impishness
The state or quality of being impish; mischievousness.
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  1. The state or quality of being impish; mischievousness.
mischief
A cause or source of harm, damage, or annoyance
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  1. A cause or source of harm, damage, or annoyance
  2. Action or conduct that causes damage or trouble
  3. Harm, damage, or injury, esp. that done by a person
mischievousness
The characteristic of being mischievous; the tendency to make mischief.
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  1. The characteristic of being mischievous; the tendency to make mischief.
roguery
Behavior characteristic of a rogue.
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  1. Behavior characteristic of a rogue.
  2. The behavior or an act of a rogue
  3. Playful mischief
tomfoolery
(Cockney rhyming slang) jewellery.
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  1. (Cockney rhyming slang) jewellery.
  2. Foolish behavior; silliness; nonsense
  3. Something trivial or foolish; nonsense.
Find another word for rascality. In this page you can discover 33 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for rascality, like: roguery, villainy, baseness, meanness, knavery, wickedness, culpability, guile, profligacy, chicanery and treachery.

Sentence Examples

  • The evil rose to alarming proportions during Grant's presidency, partly because of the immense extension of the civil service, partly because of the growing tendency to alliance between spoilsmen and the persons benefited by protective tariffs, and partly because the public attention was still so much absorbed in Southern affairs that little energy was left for curbing rascality in the North.

  • Thus they have secretly stolen our three rods that they may go unpunished, and have entrenched themselves safely behind these three walls in order to carry on all the rascality and wickedness that we now see."

  • Shortly after the committee submitted its report the clergy of Liege presented a memorial which, as the ambassador from Frankfort observed, set forth in the best Latin all the various forms of rascality of which the curtizanen (i.e.

  • It is not exactly stupidity, nor rascality....

  • "It's not treachery nor rascality nor stupidity: it is just as at Ulm... it is..."--he seemed to be trying to find the right expression.

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