Rascality vs Rascalry - What's the difference?
rascality | rascalry | Synonyms |
Rascals collectively; the rabble, the masses.
*, II.16:
*:And the judgement of our inclinations and actions (the weightiest and hardest matter that is) we referre it to the idle breath of the vaine voice of the common sort and base raskalitie , which is the mother of ignorance, of injustice and inconstancie.
The behavior of a rascal.
Rascally behavior.
* 1870 , "Review of Tracts written in the Controversy respecting the Legitimacy of Amicia, daughter of Hugh Cyveliok, Earl of Chester, A.D. 1673-1679''," ''The Antheneum , 1 Oct., p. 427:
* 1965 , , The Cat and Shakespeare: A Tale of India , Macmillan, p. 90:
(collectively, uncountable) Rascals.
* 1878 , , Memories of Our Great Towns , Chatto & Windus (London), p. 108:
* 1978 , Robert G. Wesson, State Systems: International Pluralism, Politics, and Culture , Free Press, p. 167:
Rascality is a synonym of rascalry.
As nouns the difference between rascality and rascalry
is that rascality is rascals collectively; the rabble, the masses while rascalry is rascally behavior.rascality
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(rascalities)- The two of them engaged in all kinds of rascality in college.
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(rascalries)- The Dutch war, the rights of election, contests between king and parliament on questions of vital importance, the plots, rascalries , the shame and humiliation of the time, must have been in men's thoughts.
- Can a rascal see his rascalry ? How could he, poor man?
- All the rascalry of the town, under the slogan of 'Church and King! and d--- all Presbyterians!' took advantage of the opportunity to burn, destroy, and plunder.
- Once-productive fields were deserted, as magnates surrounded themselves with hired rascalry , and banditry took over large areas of the countryside.