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Definitions: Rascality |
RascalityNoun1. The trait of indulging in disreputable pranks. 2. The quality of being a slippery rascal. 3. Reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rascality" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
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Satire | RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: RascalitySynonyms: devilment (n), devilry (n), deviltry (n), mischief (n), mischief-making (n), mischievousness (n), prankishness (n), roguery (n), roguishness (n), shenanigan (n), shiftiness (n), slipperiness (n), trickiness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Improbity | Perfidy; perfidiousness; Adjective: treachery, double dealing; unfairness; Adjective: knavery, roguery, rascality, foul play; jobbing, jobbery; graft, bribery; venality, nepotism; corruption, job, shuffle, fishy transaction; barratry, sharp practice, heads I win tails you lose; mouth honor; (flattery). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Rascality |
| English words defined with "rascality": Rascaldom, Rascalities ♦ Scoundrelism. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "rascality": Bribery. (references) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It is always good tactics in rascality to pretend to recognise one whom you do not know. |
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| Language | Translations for "rascality"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | veprim i poshtër, shejatni, maskarallëk, mashtrim (bilk, blind, bluff, bunco, bunko, caper, cheat, chicanery, chouse, circumvention, con, cozenage, crammer, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, defalcation, delusion, dodge, double dealing, duplicity, fake, false pretences, falsity, flimflam, fob, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gag, gammon, gimmick, guile, gyp, humbug, imposition, imposture, jiggery pokery, juggler, jugglery, juggling, leasing, lie, manipulation, overreach, quackery, racket, racketeering, rascaldom, rig, roguery, sham, swindle, take in, trick). (various references) | |
Arabic | إحتيال (cheat, cheating, embezzlement, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gyp, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, humbug, hustle, jugglery, knavery, racket, roguery, swindle, victimization). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | мошеничество (blackguardism, cheat, dishonesty, fraudulence, harlotry, have, knavery, racketeering, rascaldom, roguery, skin, skuldggery, swiz, thimblerig, trickery). (various references) | |
Czech | lumpárna (monkey business, rascaldom). (various references) | |
French | friponnerie. (various references) | |
German | Schweinerei (dirty trick, filth, indecent act, mess, scandal, smutty joke, swinishness), Schurkerei (roguery, villainousness). (various references) | |
Greek | αχρειότησ (scoundrelism, scurrility, scurviness, vileness, villainy), αχρειότητα (scoundrelism, scurrility, scurviness, vileness, villainy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gaz csíny, alávalóság (abjection, baseness, foulness, villainy). (various references) | |
Italian | furfanteria (roguery). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ascalityray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | patifaria (rascaldom, villainy), malandrice (rascaldom, roguery), canalhice (rascaldom). (various references) | |
Romanian | ticãloşie (abjection, baseness, blackness, dirt, filth, foulness, ignominiousness, ignominy, infamy, knavery, knavishness, meanness, misdeed, swinishness, wickedness, wretchedness), pungãşie (confiscation, do, falseness, fraud, knavery, snap, swindle, theft, thievery), pleava societãţii (scum of the society), blestemãţie (baseness, dirt). (various references) | |
Russian | мошенничество (chouse, dishonesty, do, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gyp, hanky-panky, knavery, numbers game, roguery, scam, scams, sharp practice, skin-game), подлость (baseness, dirt, dirtiness, dirty trick, meanness, villainy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nitkovluk (baseness). (various references) | |
Spanish | picardía (archness, craftiness, naughtiness, roguery, Smarts). (various references) | |
Swedish | lymmelaktighet (rascaldom). (various references) | |
Thai | ความสารเลว. (various references) | |
Turkish | namussuzluk (bawdry, dishonesty, dishonorableness, dishonourableness, ignominy, lewdness, tortuosity, unchastity), hovardalık (dissoluteness, libertinage, libertinism, licentiousness, profligacy, rakishness, riotous living), ahlaksızlık (corruption, debauch, debauchery, depravation, depravity, dissoluteness, immorality, indecency, moral turpitude, turpitude, uncleanliness, vice, viciousness, wantonness), çapkınlık (debauchery, dissipation, dissoluteness, lechery, libertinage, libertinism, licentiousness, profligacy, roguery, vice). (various references) | |
Ukranian | шахрайство (bamboozle, bilk, cheat, deception, dishonesty, dodge, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gyp, imposture, pettifogging, racket, racketeering, roguery, shave, skulduggery), підлий вчинок. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính côn đ" (ruffianism), tính bất lương (indirectness), tính đểu giả h nh động côn đ", h nh động bất lương (malfeasance), h nh động đểu giả. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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"Rascality" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: racapity, rascalitie, Rocality. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "rascality" (pronounced 'Ras*cal`i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability, Alterity, Alternity, Amability, Ambidexterity, Ambiguity, Amenability, Amenity, Amiability, Amicability, Amissibility, Amity, Amorosity, Amovability, Anaplasty, Anfractuosity, Anglicity, Angularity, Angulosity, Anility, Animality, Animosity, Annuity, Annularity, Anonymity, Anteriority, Antiquity, Anxiety, Appetibility, Applicability, Apprehensibiity, Approachability, Appropinquity, Apriority, Aqueity, Aquosity, Aridity, Artificiality, Asininity, Asperity, Assiduity, Assignability, Assimilability, Associability, Astucity, Atomicity, Atrocity, Attainability, Attractability, Attractivity, Audacity, Audibility, Austerity, Authenticity, Authority, Autoplasty, Autostability, availability, Avidity, Banality, Barbarity, Basicity, Batty, BEAUTY, Benignity, Bestiality, Betty, Bibacity, Biblicality, Biformity, Bilaterality, Biplicity, Bipolarity, Bolty, Booty, BOUNTY, Brevity, Bridalty, Brutality, Butty, Caducity, Calamity, Calidity, Caliginosity, Callidity, Callosity, Caloricity, Canonicity, Canthoplasty, Canty, Capability, Capacity, Capillarity, Captivity, Cariosity, Carnality, Carnivoracity, Carnosity, Casualty, Catholicity, Catty, Causality, Cavity, Cecity, Celebrity, Celerity, Centrality, Centricity, Cerebricity, Certainty, Champerty, Changeability, Charity, Chastity, Cheiloplasty, Christianity, Circuity, Circularity, Circumstantiality, Civillty, Clandestinity, Clarity, Clericity, Clivity, Clotty, Coactivity, Coagulability, Coequality, Coessentiality, Coeternity, Cogitability, Cognoscibility, Cohesibility, Collectivity, Colloidality, Columnarity, Combustibility, Comicality, Comity, Commensality, Commensurability, Commodity, Commonalty, Commonty, Communicability, Community, Commutability, Compaternity, Compatibility, Complexity, Complicity, Comprehensibility, Compressibility, Concavity, Concentricity, Conceptibility, Concinnity, Condensability, Condignity, Conditionality, Conducibility, Conductibility, Conductivity, Confinity, Confluxibility, Conformability, Conformity, Confraternity, Confusability, Congeniality, Congruity, Conicality, Conjugality, Connaturality, Connubiality, Consanguinity, Consentaneity, Conspectuity, Conspicuity, Constitutionality, Consubstantiality, Contemporaneity, Contemptibility, Contiguity, Continuity, Contractibility, Contractility, Contrariety, Controllability, Conventionality, Convertibility, Convexity, Convicinity, Conviviality, Cordiality, Coreplasty, Corporality, Corporeality, Corporeity, Corrigibility, Corrodibility, Corrosibility, Corruptibility, Cosurety, Cotqueanity, County, Credibility, Credulity, Criminality, Crinosity, Crocodility, Crudity, Cruelty, Cullibility, Culpability, Cupidity, Curability, Curiality, Curiosity, Curvilinearity, Curvity, Cutty, Cylindricity, Cytty, Damnability, Debility, Debonairity, Deceptivity, Deciduity, Declivity, Deducibility, Defectibility, Defectuosity, Defensibility, Deflagrability, Deformity, Deiformity, Deity, Demisability, Democraty, Demonstrability, Demurity, Density, Deplorability, Depravity, Deputy, Descendibility, Desirability, Despicability, Destructibility, Deteriority, Determinability, Detestability, Devexity, Devotionality, Dexterity, Dextrality, Diaphaneity, Dibasicity, Dicacity, Didacticity, Difficulty, Difformity, Diffusibility, Diffusivity, Digestibility, Dignity, Dilatability, Dimensity, Dimity, Disability, Disassiduity, Discommodity, Discommunity, Disconformity, Discongruity, Discontinuity, Discoverability, Disensanity, Disformity, Dishonesty, Disingenuity, Disloyalty, Disparity, Disproperty, Disputacity, Disquantity, Disreputability, Disrespectability, Dissimilarity, Dissipativity, Dissociability, Dissolubility, Dissolvability, Distensibility, Disunity, Diuturnity, Diversifiability, Diversity, Divinity, Divisibility, Docility, Docity, Domesticity, Dotty, Doty, Doughty, Drasty, Duality, Dubiety, Dubiosity, Ductility, Duplicity, Durability, Durity, Duty, Dynasty, Ebriety, Ebriosity, Eccentricity, Edacity, Edibility, Educability, Efficacity, Effumability, Egality, Egoity, Elasticity, Electorality, Elementality, Elementarity, Eligibility, Ellipticity, Emotivity, Empty, Enmity, Enomoty, Enormity, Entierty, Entirety, Entity, Ephoralty, Epulosity, Equability, Equality, Equanimity, Equilibrity, Equity, Erectility, Essentiality, Eternity. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-l-r-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: alacrity, salacity. | |
-2 letters: astylar, caritas, citrals, clarity, crystal, lactary, lariats, latrias, satyric, scarily, trysail. | |
-3 letters: aliyas, altars, arista, artily, astral, astray, atrial, carats, casita, citral, craals, crista, lariat, lascar, latria, lyrics, lyrist, racial, racily, racist, rascal, ratals, riatas, rictal, riyals, sacral, salary, scalar, stylar, talars, tarsal, tarsia, tiaras, ticals, trails, triacs, trials. | |
-4 letters: acari, acyls, airts, alary, alias, alist, aliya, altar, arias, arils, artal, artsy, aryls, astir, asyla, atlas, atria, carat, carls, carts, clary, clast, clays, clits, craal, laari, laics, lairs, laity, laris, liars, liras, litas, lyart, lyric, lytic, raias, rails, ratal, rayas, rials, riata, riyal, sacra, salic, salty, satay, satyr, scaly, scart, scary, silty, sitar, slaty, stair, stray, stria, styli, tails, talar, talas, talcs, tarsi, tiara, tical, tirls, trail, trays, triac, trial. | |
-5 letters: aals, acta, acts, acyl, ails, airs, airt, airy, aits, alar, alas, alit, alts, arcs, aria, aril, arts, arty, aryl, asci, carl, cars, cart, casa, cast, cats, cays, cist, city, clay, clit, cris, cyst, lacs, lacy, laic, lair, lari, lars, last, lati, lats, lays, liar, lira, list, lits, racy, raia, rail, rats, raya, rays, rial, rias, ryas, sail, salt, sari, sati, scar, scat, scry, sial, silt, slat, slay, slit, star, stay, stir, syli, tail, tala, talc, tali, tars, tics, tils, tirl, tray, tsar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-l-r-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: paralytics. | |
+2 letters: drastically, satirically, vascularity. | |
+3 letters: acrostically, aoristically, artiodactyls, artistically, asymmetrical, avascularity, clairvoyants, microanalyst, quasicrystal, tracklayings. | |
+4 letters: astrophysical, cryptanalysis, crystalloidal, microanalysts, orgiastically, parasitically, postcranially, prismatically, quasicrystals, realistically, sarcastically, straitlacedly, strategically, sybaritically, sympatrically, thrasonically, ultraphysical. | |
+5 letters: aeroelasticity, allosterically, altruistically, aphoristically, astrologically, astronomically, asymmetrically, axisymmetrical, carbonylations, carboxylations, classificatory, crystallizable, hypercatalexis, inartistically, moralistically, satisfactorily, tyrannicalness, ultrasonically, urbanistically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 61 73 63 61 6C 69 74 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 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R a s c a l i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0061 0073 0063 0061 006C 0069 0074 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)526785696778758691 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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