The word 'rapscallion' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is mainly used to describe a mischievous or deceitful person, usually in a playful or humorous way. Here is an example of how the word 'rapscallion' can be used in a sentence: The old man chuckled as he watched the group of young rapscallions playing pranks on their neighbors.
Only 18 months ago, this political rapscallion of old hijacked the top job in Germany's Social Democratic opposition and then quietly lifted it off the political floor.
Lyuba, her ancient grandmother (aged 100 when this book was written), is self-obsessed, seeing the past only as a backdrop to her own life.The main part of "The Lost Khrushchev" is a biography of Leonid, a rebellious rapscallion, "a kind of Soviet James Dean", the author suggests, who grew up in the shadow of his famous father, one of Stalin's trusted henchmen, in the 1930s.
Irwin makes the provocative argument, too, that the seemingly throwaway Pat Hobby stories, tales of a rapscallion screenwriter, dramatize the "authority of failure" — Fitzgerald's phrase for what his personal defeats had earned him; Hemingway, he thought, wrote with the "authority of success" — and let Fitzgerald see beyond the ideologies of his time.
Picabia denounced it and moved to a château near Cannes, where he undertook kitschy styles of figurative painting whose rapscallion tang would give his influence a second life, on the neo-expressionists of the nineteen-eighties.
I surmise that she was hampered by, even while being nurtured on, a scene that was dominated by men, including her husband, who steered art-making toward literary conceits and rapscallion gestures.
It's too easy for country stars to play to type, but Mr. Shelton doesn't at all, taking on countless roles in his songs: a clever drunk and a loyal son, a skeptical lover and a crafty prisoner, a redneck booster and a carefree rapscallion.
Usually that arc is the preserve of rappers; now it's the turf of Miranda Lambert, onetime country rapscallion turned belle of the ball.
THAT rapscallion who leaps off the monkey bars, landing smack onto an innocent 3-year-old bystander, and skips off, giggling all the while?
If you don't watch the televisual feast that is The Simpsons, "Eat my shorts" is a phrase made famous by rapscallion (I love that word) Bart Simpson.
He likes the city's trendy new Ping-Pong parlors just fine, particularly if some hot rapscallion has the gall to challenge him.
That made it possible to shoehorn in RAPSCALLION at 22 Down, as well.
