RASCAL in a Sentence

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59 example sentences for RASCAL, such as:

1. The rascal sprang from this marauding.
2. It is not comfortable to become a rascal.
3. He was at that time only a famous rascal.
4. He is a man whom I take to be an utter rascal.
5. The rascal lives on the credulity of the people.

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 Meanings and Examples of RASCAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rascal
 n.  one who is playfully mischievous
 n.  a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
Classic Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
1  My late wife made the stuff," went on the old man, "but that rascal of a housekeeper went and threw away a lot of it, and never even replaced the stopper.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
2  For these reasons do I reaffirm that it is high time to yoke a rascal to the shafts.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
3  He is a man whom I take to be an utter rascal.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
4  It was not only that I could not become spiteful, I did not know how to become anything; neither spiteful nor kind, neither a rascal nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: I
5  That rascal Ferfitchkin followed with his nasty little snigger like a puppy yapping.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: IV
6  But he faroed me out of a hundred rubles yesterday, the rascal.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
7  And if his father is living, may the rascal perish, may he choke to death.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV
8  He is a hypocrite, a rascal who has himself roused the people to riot.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XVIII
9  "I am sure that rascal was lying," said the count.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER VI
10  Brevet was a person sixty years of age, who had a sort of business man's face, and the air of a rascal.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS
11  The rascal sprang from this marauding.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT
12  This rascal of composite order was, in all probability, some Fleming from Lille, in Flanders, a Frenchman in Paris, a Belgian at Brussels, being comfortably astride of both frontiers.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
13  This Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, figured later on in many criminal trials, and became a notorious rascal.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER X—TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR
14  He was at that time only a famous rascal.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER X—TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR
15  It is not comfortable to become a rascal.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI...
Example Sentence:
1  The rascal lives on the credulity of the people.
2  Not only grandmothers bore you with stories about their brilliant grandchildren; grandfathers dote on the little rascals, too.
3  Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.