rascality

Noun

rascality (countable and uncountable, plural rascalities)

1. Rascals collectively; the rabble, the masses.
   • 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.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 16, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
2. The behavior of a rascal; the quality of being a rascal.
   • The two of them engaged in all kinds of rascality in college.
   • On an a priori view of Wakem's aquiline nose, which offended Mr. Tulliver, there was not more rascality than in the shape of his stiff shirt-collar, though this too along with his nose, might have become fraught with damnatory meaning when once the rascality was ascertained.1860, George Eliot, Mill on the Floss, Book III, Chapter VII