The old, good Voltaire was exactly the same man as the young rascal, and the rascality fuelled the goodness with energy and mischief.
To compound the rascality, the banks shared in those profits by demanding return favours from the clients.Wall Street is suddenly taking all these accusations seriously.
J.P. Morgan described Yerkes's manoeuvres as "the greatest rascality and conspiracy I have ever heard of".
Observers warn of the "rascality" of Nigerian officials.The president says he will work hard to make his privatisation plan work.
He wrote in his diary:"We have no right to seize Sind, yet we shall do so, and a very advantageous, useful, humane piece of rascality it will be .ANDREW BOYDLondon.
We doubt there was ever a time in this country when so many people were trying to discredit so many other people,..and the story of life in the U. S. dissolves into a novel of perfidy, rascality, iniquity, and misbehavior.
(In French, it is "Images à la Sauvette" — roughly, "images on the fly," with an implication of rascality).
Gore Vidal called his writing pornographic; Dorothy Parker claimed nobody could write a better novel than "The Ginger Man" — which she called "a rigadoon of rascality, a bawled-out comic song of sex" — unless that person was Donleavy himself.
Oddly, though, in the last pages, Mencken — whose appeal as a writer lay in his baroque invective and unrelenting negativity — struck a sentimental note, chirping that if America is drenched in rascality, "we have borne that rascality since 1776, and continue to survive".
And for the Prussian historian Julius Pflugk-Hartung, it was "a victory of Germanic strength over French rascality".
Not, you understand, that Jarvis wants us all to be squeaky clean and incapable of general rascality – a term coined by philosopher Alan Watts, of whom he's a fan.
