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Definitions: Rascally |
RascallyAdjective1. Playful in an appealingly bold way; "a roguish grin". 2. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rascally" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Synonyms: RascallySynonyms: blackguardly (adj), devilish (adj), roguish (adj), scoundrelly (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Improbity | Contemptible, unrespectable, abject, mean, shabby, little, paltry, dirty, scurvy, scabby, sneaking, groveling, scrubby, rascally, pettifogging; beneath one. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Rascally |
| English words defined with "rascally": blackguardly ♦ disgraceful ♦ Furciferous ♦ roguish ♦ scandalous, scoundrelly, shameful, shocking. (references) |
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| "Rascally" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Rascally" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "rascally": a rascally fellow ♦ a rascally trick. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "rascally"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mashtrues (ambidextrous, artful, bilker, bluffer, bouncer, catchy, cheat, Crimp, deceitful, deceiver, deceptive, delusive, delusory, diddler, dishonest, dodger, double, double dealing, double-dealer, finagler, fraud, fraudulent, guileful, gyp, humbug, hustler, impostor, Jack-in-the-box, mendacious, misleading, mountebank, pettifogger, pettifogging, phoney, quack, racketeer, rascal, rogue, sandman, shuffler, skin, snide, swindler, trickster, twister, two-tongued), i ulët (base, contemptible, dark, deep, down, gentle, give away, humble, ignoble, infamous, low, low down, low lying, lowly, mean, modest, nasty, nefarious, petty, primary, scrubby, scurvy, shoddy, subdued, vile, villainous, vulgar), i pandershëm (base, conscienceless, dark, devious, dirty, dishonest, disreputable, ill gotten, knavish, mean, raw, roguish, unfaithful, unscrupulous, unsportsmanlike). (various references) | |
Arabic | نذل (cad, ragamuffin, scoundrel, scoundrelly, villainous), شرير (bad, black, black-hearted, dark, devil, diabolic, diabolical, evil, ill, iniquitous, maleficent, malicious, malign, nasty, naughty, reprobate, rogue, roguish, rude, sinister, spiteful, unholy, vicious, wicked). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | мошенически (dishonest, fast, fraudulent, knavish, phoney, phony, roguish, scoundrelly, tricky). (various references) | |
Czech | nièemný (caitiff, contemptible, despicable, miscreated, roguish, scampish, scoundrelly, vile, villainous, worthless). (various references) | |
French | méchant, coquin (rascal). (various references) | |
German | schuftig (mean, shabby), gemein (abject, abominable, base, basely, beastly, bitchy, caitiff, cheap, coarse, common, cussedly, dirty, disreputable, foul, horrid, horridly, infamous, invidious, joint, low, lower case, malicious, maliciously, mean, meanly, miscreant, miserable, miserably, nastily, nasty, paltry, reptilian, rotten, scurillously, scurvily, scurvy, sordid, spiteful, squalid, squalidly, ugly, unkind, unkindly, vicious, vile, vilely, villainous, vulgar, wicked). (various references) | |
Greek | αχρείωσ, αχρείοσ (depraved, foul, infamous, miscreant, rascal, scoundrel, scurrile, scurrilous, scurvy, vile, villainous). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hitvány (bloody, caddish, dastardly, despicable, grovelling, mean, naught, perfidious, pitiable, punk, raffish, rinky-dink, rubbishy, scummy, scurvied, scurvy, shoddy, skunk, sordid, squalid, tin-pot, trashy, vile, worthless), gaz (knavish, nefarious, roguish, scoundrelly, villainous, weed), cudar (shabby), csibész (badmash, bratty, cad, gutter-snipe, knave, scoundrel, scoundrelly, urchin, wide boy), betyár, alávaló (abject, despicable, dirty, dungy, foul, nefarious, perfidious, pitiful, scurvy). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kebrandalan, keberandalan (villainy, wantonness). (various references) | |
Italian | briccone (imp, knave, miscreant, rascal, rogue, scamp). (various references) | |
Manx | screbbagh (mangy, scabbed, scabby, scoundrelly), mooidjeenagh (badly behaved, debase, despicable, villainous), mitchooragh (mischievous). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ascallyray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vil (base, caitiff, carrion, despicable, dirty, ignoble, limb, lousy, lower, low-minded, mean, nasty, nefarious, paludal, piccaninny, reptile, rotten, scurrilous, scurvy, servile, slavish, sneaking, sordid, ugly, vile, villainous), próprio de malandro, patife (caitiff, cheat, crook, heavy, knave, mean-spirited, miscreant, ne'er do well, rascal, reprobate, rogue, rotter, scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel, scoundrelly, spalpeen, vagabond, villain, wretch), miserável (abject, costive, dismal, evil, godforsaken, hound, logy, meager, misbehave, miscreant, miscreated, miserable, miserly, paltry, picayune, pimple, poky, poor, scaly, scoundrel, scurvy, skinflint, sordid, squalid, wretch, wretched), baixo (base, bass, bass viol, bass voice, basso, caitiff, common, dumpy, dwarfish, hereinafter, hollow, ignoble, lily livered, low, low down, lowering, mean, mediocrity, menial, netherlander, obsequious, pygmean, raffish, reptile, scummy, scurrilous, scurvy, servile, shallow, short, slavish, small, sordid, superficial, viola da gamba, vulgar, vulgarian). (various references) | |
Romanian | ticãlos (a bad egg, base, cad, canting, cur, dark, dirty, felon, foul, heel, hound, impious, kite, knave, knavish, knavishly, low-minded, mean, meanly, miscreant, paltry, perverse, picaroon, rapscallion, rascal, recreant, reprobate, ruffian, scab, scabby, scamp, scoundrel, scurvy, serpentine, shabby, skunk, sneak, sneaking, vile, villain, villainous, wretch, wretched), nemernic (base, cad, caitiff, felon, foul, rascal, reprobate, scamp, scoundrel, sneak, sneaking, son of a gun, villain, wretch, wretched), mişel (caitiff, cowardly, dastard, rascal, recreant, sneaking, villain), blestemat (accursed, confounded, cursed, damnable, damned, darn, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, evil-minded, shabby, terrible, villainous, wicked). (various references) | |
Russian | мошеннический (dishonest, fraudulent, knavish). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | raskalašno, raskalašan (abandoned, dissipated, dissolute, fast, licentious, loose, rakish, riotous, swinging). (various references) | |
Spanish | pícaro (crafty, imp, jester, naughty, picaroon, rascal, rogue, roguish, saucy, scalawag, scallawag, scallywag, scamp, scapegrace, street smart, tinker). (various references) | |
Swedish | lymmel-, bovaktig (villainous). (various references) | |
Turkish | namussuzca (dishonestly, dishonourably), namussuz (dishonest, dishonorable, dishonourable, faithless, rascal, shady, tortuous, unchaste, uncleanly), alçakça (abjectly, cowardly, meanly, nefariously, sneakingly, unworthy), alçak (abandoned, abject, base, baseborn, blackguard, contemptible, cowardly, dastardly, heel, humble, ignoble, lousy, low, low down, lowrise, misbegotten, nasty, nefarious, no good, ravisher, recreant, scoundrel, scoundrelly, short, sneak, sneaking, sneaky, sordid, squat, swab, swob, vile, villainous), ahlaksız (abandoned, characterless, corrupt, debauched, depraved, dirty, disorderly, dissolute, frail, ill, immoral, impure, libertine, loose, low down, mean, purple, rascal, rep, reprobate, unclean, uncleanly, unmoral, unprincipled, unregenerate, unscrupulous, vicious, wanton, wicked), aşağılık (abject, base, baseness, contemptible, dirty, groveling, grovelling, ignoble, ignominious, inferiority, low down, lowness, mean, no class, no good, pettiness, petty, reptilian, scabby, scurvy, slavish, snotty, sordid, tinpot, unutterable, unworthy, vile, wicked, wormy). (various references) | |
Ukranian | шахрайський (fraudulent, pettifogging, picaresque, puckish, snide), нечесно (foul, meanly), ниций (poor, sinister), підло (basely, dirtily, meanly, under board). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | côn đ" (thug, villain, villainous), bất lương (indirect, malfeasant), đểu giả. (various references) | |
Welsh | cnafaidd (knavish). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Rascally" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ransackly, rascalls, Rastall, Roncalli. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "rascally" (pronounced 'Ras"cal*ly'): Abandonedly, Abasedly, Abashedly, Abhorrently, Abidingly, Abjectly, Abnormally, Abominably, Aboriginally, Abortively, Abruptly, Absently, Absolutely, Absorbedly, Abstinently, Abstractedly, Abstractively, Abstractly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Abundantly, Abusively, Abysmally, Academically, Accentually, Acceptably, Acceptedly, Accessarily, Accessibly, Accessorily, Accidentally, Accommodately, Accordantly, Accordingly, Accountably, Accurately, Accusatively, Accusatorially, Accusingly, Accustomably, Accustomarily, Achromatically, Acidly, Acknowledgedly, Acoustically, Acquiescently, Acquisitively, Acridly, Acrimoniously, Acrocephaly, Acromegaly, Acronycally, Acrostically, Actionably, Actively, Actually, Acutely, Adaptly, Additionally, Adequately, Adherently, Adhesively, Adjacently, Adjectivally, Adjectively, Adjunctively, Adjunctly, Admirably, Admittedly, Adorably, Adoringly, Adorningly, Adroitly, Adulterously, Advantageously, Adventurously, Adverbially, Adversely, Advisably, Advisedly, Aerially, Affably, Affectedly, Affectingly, Affectionately, Affectively, Affirmatively, Afflictively, Affluently, Affrightedly, Affrontedly, Affrontingly, Agamically, Agedly, Aggravatingly, Aggregately, Agilely, Agitatedly, Agonistically, Agonizingly, Agreeably, Agreeingly, Airily, Alacriously, Alarmedly, Alchemically, Alertly, Algebraically, Alimentally, Allenarly, Allodially, Allopathically, Allowably, Allowedly, Allusively, Almightily, Alphabetically, Alterably, Alternately, Alternatively, Amatorially, Amazedly, Ambidextrously, Ambiguously, Ambitiously, Amblingly, Ambrosially, Amenably, Amiably, Amicably, Amorously, Amphibiously, Amphiboly, Amphitheatrically, Amply, Anacamptically, Analogically, Analytically, Anatomically, Ancestorially, Anciently, Angelically, Angerly, Angrily, Angularly, Animally, Animatedly, Anniversarily, Annually, Anomalistically, Anomalously, Anomaly, Anonymously, Answerably, Antecedently, Anteriorly, Antichristianly, Anticly, Antiquely, Antiseptically, Antithetically, Anxiously, Apathetically, Apertly, Aphoristically, Apishly, Apocalyptically, Apocryphally, Apologetically, Apostolically, Apparently, Appearingly, Appellatively, Applicatorily, Appliedly, Appreciatingly, Apprehensively, Appropriately, Approvedly, Approximately, Appulsively, Aptly, Arbitrarily, Archetypally, Archly, Arcuately, Ardently, Arduously, Argutely, Arithmetically, Arrantly, Arrogantly, Artfully, Articularly, Articulately, Artificially, Artlessly, Artly, Asexually, Ashamedly, ASSEMBLY, Assistantly, Assumably, Assumedly, Assuredly, Astatically, Astonishedly, Astringently, Atmospherically, Atomically, Attemperly, Attently, Attributively, Audaciously, Audibly, Augustly, Auricularly, Austerely, Authentically, Authenticly, Authorly, Autogenously, Automatically, Autoptically, Auxiliarly, Avaiably, Aversely, Avidiously, Avisely, Awfully, Awkly, Axially, Axiomatically, Backwardly, Badly, Baggily, Bakingly, Baldly, Balefully, Balkingly, Balmily, Baptismally, Barbarously, Barefacedly, Barely, Barometrically, Barrenly, Barruly, Basely, Bashfully, Bastardly, Bawdily, Bayardly, Beamily, Beamingly, Beastly, Becomingly, Befittingly, Behovely, Bellicosely, Belligerently, Beneficently, Beneficially, Benignly, Beseemly, Besottingly, Bestially, Biblically, Bibulously, Biennially, Bifariously, Bigly, Bigotedly, Billy, Bindingly, Binocularly, Bitingly, Bitterly, Blackguardly, Blackly, Blamelessly, Blandly, Blankly, Blasphemously, Blatantly, Blessedly, Blightingly, Blindly, Blithely, Blolly, Bloodily, Bloomingly, Bluely, Blunderingly, Bluntly, Blushingly, Blusteringly, Boastingly, Bobfly, Boilingly, Boisterously, Boldly, Bonnily, Booly, botchedly, botcherly, Botfly, Bouncingly, Bowingly, Boyishly, Braggingly, Bragly, Brainsickly, Brambly, Bravely, Bravingly, Brawlingly, Brazenly, Breathlessly, Brenningly, Briefly, Brightly, Brilliantly, Briskly, Bristly, Brittlely, Broadly, Brokenly, Brokerly, Brutally, Brutely, Bubbly, Buffoonly, Bunglingly, Burglariously, Burly, Busily, Butcherly, Butterfly, Buzzingly, Cabalistically, Calmly, Camously, Candidly, Cankeredly, Cannibally, Cannily, Canonically, Capaciosly, Capitally, Capitularly, Captiously, Carefully, Carelessly, Caressingly, Carnally, Carousingly, Cartographically, Casually, Catchfly, Catechetically, Categorically, Catholicly, Causatively, Caustically, Causticily, Cautiously, Cavalierly, Cavally, Cavilingly, Celestially, Centennially, Centrally, Ceremonially, Ceremoniously, Certainly, Chanceably, Chandlerly, Changeably, Chaotically, Chargeably, Charily, Charitably, Chastely, Cheaply, Cheerfully, Cheerily, Cheeringly, Chely, Chemically, Chidingly, Chiefly, Childishly, Chimerically, Chirpingly, Chirurgeonly, Chivalrously, Choicely, Cholericly, Chorally. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-l-l-r-s-y" | |
-2 letters: allays, callas, craals, lascar, rascal, sacral, salary, scalar. | |
-3 letters: acyls, alary, allay, aryls, asyla, calla, calls, carls, clary, clays, craal, rally, rayas, sacra, salal, sally, scall, scaly, scary. | |
-4 letters: aals, acyl, alar, alas, alls, ally, arcs, aryl, call, carl, cars, casa, cays, clay, lacs, lacy, lars, lays, racy, raya, rays, ryas, sall, scar, scry, slay. | |
-5 letters: aal, aas, ala, all, als, arc, ars, ays, car, cay, cry, lac, lar, las, lay, ras, ray, rya, sac, sal, say, sly, yar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-l-l-r-s-y" | |
+1 letter: carryalls. | |
+3 letters: ancestrally, cadastrally, drastically, prosaically, satirically. | |
+4 letters: acrostically, aoristically, artistically, calcareously, fascicularly, sacerdotally, sardonically, seraphically, sporadically. | |
+5 letters: crystalloidal, orgiastically, parasitically, pharisaically, postcranially, prismatically, realistically, rhapsodically, sacramentally, sacrificially, sarcastically, scalariformly, spectacularly, straitlacedly, strategically, sybaritically, sympatrically, thrasonically, ultraphysical. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 61 73 63 61 6C 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .- ... -.-. .- .-.. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100001 01110011 01100011 01100001 01101100 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R a s c a l l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0061 0073 0063 0061 006C 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5267856967787891 |
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