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ras·cal·i·ty
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复数:rascalities
词根:rascal
adj.rascal 不诚实的;下贱的,卑鄙的
rascally 无赖的;卑鄙的
adv.rascally 无赖地;卑鄙地
n.rascal 流氓,无赖;淘气鬼,捣蛋鬼
1570年代,“低贱和粗俗的人集体”; 1590年代,“恶棍的性格或行为”; 见 rascal + -ity。中古英语有 rascaldry “普通士兵”(15世纪中期); 卡莱尔(1837)使用 rascaldom “恶棍的领域或范围”。
rascal + -ity
The first known use of rascality was circa 1577
rash1 of 2adjective
marked by or coming from being too hasty in speech or action or in making decisions
a rash promise
rash2 of 2noun
a breaking out of the skin with red spots
many instances in a short time
a rash of fires
rash1 of 2adjective
marked by or coming from being too hasty in speech or action or in making decisions
a rash promise
rash2 of 2noun
a breaking out of the skin with red spots
many instances in a short time
a rash of fires
rascallyadjective
of or resembling that of a rascal
a rascally trick
rascalitynoun
the actions or character of a rascal
1 But the people always think that he or she, in whose name a thing is done, is answerable for it, and theologians all teach that everything, even rascality, occurs by the will of God.
2 My dear Miss Covington," he burst out, as he came into the room, "I have just heard of all this rascality, and what you and your friend Miss Purcell have discovered.
3 For our banker felt as much satisfaction after committing this piece of rascality, after cheating his friend of so many pesetas, as the righteous man knows after doing an act of justice or charity.
4 Between ourselves, Master Elmore is an all-round scoundrel; I swear to you that I'm convinced that no rascality would be too steep for him.
5 switching the entrance and exits signs in the school parking lot may seem like harmless rascality, if you're not the one involved in an accident
6 This was a common rascality of logic alike in theology and politics in those days.
7 To mask a rascality that need never be disclosed, since no one would hear of it unless the Squire talked.
8 Mr Palmer's comments also attracted attention in Chinese media, with state-run daily Global Times saying the tycoon's "rampant rascality serves as a symbol that Australian society has an unfriendly attitude toward China".
9 They said that they were going to show the rascality of Congress.
10 In moments of peril to the public weal it is certain that ministers must draw their information from any quarter, however foul; but to offer a premium to rascality is surely criminal.
11 There is something wrong, when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.
12 With N. P. Thomas, a Ranger who was one of his closest friends, he was sent to deal with a plague of rascality in Amarillo, in the Texas Panhandle.
13 Indications showed that he wrought some damage upon the rider also, as he had to be assisted by his comrades in rascality.
14 It is a splendid certificate to our race that rascality is still considered news.
15 Had Cadwgan not done what he did, the scoundrel’s rascality would in all probability have effected my ruin.
16 His squirrel-soul sprang with insatiable unrest from branch to branch; he knew what lies between sublimity and rascality; he had sat on every seat, always with unabashed watery eyes and mobile play of feature.
17 This villain may be connected with any nefarious piece of rascality.
18 "The rascality of the rich man has been used to influence Congress to rig the tax law with purposeful defectiveness to provide loopholes for the wealthy," Scripps told one of his editors.
19 He had delivered himself up into the hands of this scoundrel, though he was, perhaps; not entirely helpless, since this letter proved clearly Wroblewski's rascality.
20 Continental Congress, second, Adams on jealousies in, 68; Jay and Morris on rascality in, 75; Rev. Jacob Duche, chaplain, of letter to Washington on the personnel of, 80, 90.
2 卑鄙
mean little sorry filthy lousy shabby despicable cowardly nefarious abject hellish sordid menial scoundrel beastly putrid ignoble pitiable scabby mangy caddish currish near the bone
4 无赖行为
6 流氓行径
8 奸猾
9 流氓
flash ruffian roguish rascally shit-heel shit-hook gorill plug-ugly tough rough mob rogue mug gangster filth scab goon rascal loon wretch scoundrel vagabond scamp knave hoodlum such-and-such swashbuckler blackguard toughie lobo rapscallion bullyboy whoreson limmer highbinder skelm spalpeen scalawag yoot tsotsi ladron bezonian jaboney Scaramouch skellum