rascally

• “For more than a year the army up the river ate 20 tons of flour daily, and it is easy to imagine how bitter amid ordinary circumstances would have been the battle between the commissariat officers, whose duty it was to insist on proper quality, and the contractors -- often, I fear, meriting the epithet 'rascally' -- intent only upon profit.”

  The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan

• “It also contained what some have called the rascally, others the asinine propositions that the volume of currency should be made and kept equal to the wants of trade; that all National Bank circulation should be promptly and permanently retired, and legal tenders be issued in their stead, and that the payment of at least one-half of the customs should be in legal tenders.”

  The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes

• “As Fela explains, "If rascality is going to get us what we want, we will use it; because we are dealing with corrupt people, we have to be 'rascally' with them.”

  The Huffington Post: Fela: Music Is Still the Weapon

• “Former senator William Proxmire awarded the project a Golden Fleece Award, and the late representative Silvio Conte once said that rather than spending millions to find "rascally" aliens, all one need do is pick up a supermarket tabloid.”

  Newsweek: ET, PHONE US

• “Right now raising that sum might not be at the top of his own agenda: he's trying to negotiate an end to a threatened uprising by "rascally" activists in his country's most strategically important region, the oil-rich Niger Delta.”

  Newsweek: Promising Too Much?

• “They were asked why they had not demanded of those "rascally" Indians that they explain why they were skinning a cow that did not belong to them.”

  Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method

• “And as a final parry by anticipation to the objection that such comparison is "rascally," let it be said that nothing of the kind ever created any prejudice against the book in my case.”

  A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century

• “I do not believe that our communities have got to that degree of depravity yet that such kind of rascally prudence is necessary to be exercised in making laws.”

  History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II

• “But, if the slave is the property of his employer, and becomes "rascally," the usual remedy is that which the veterinary surgeon recommended when he was called upon for advice how to cure a balky horse: "Sell him, my lord.”

  A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy

• “There is a difference ... which the Democratic Strategist memo likewise recognizes when it refers to the “extremist philosophy” of those rascally Republicans who seek “to establish the right of individuals or states to ignore and disobey any laws that they happen to interpret as impinging on their freedom or natural rights.””

  The Volokh Conspiracy » The Democratic Strategist misdescribes some legal issues

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