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rascally, a.|ˈrɑːskəlɪ, -æ-|
Also 6–7 rask-.
[f. rascal n. + -ly1.]
†1. Forming one or part of the rabble or common sort. Obs. = rascal a. 1.
1642J. Eaton Honey-c. Free Justif. 47 Like rascally souldiers. 1661Pepys Diary 15 Sept., There was none of any quality, but poor and rascally people. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. iii. 43 All the drudges and rascally People which Courts and Armies commonly draw after them.
†b. Poor, worthless. Obs. = rascal a. 2.
1600Surflet Countrie Farme iii. xviii. 462 All the small and rascallie sort of fruit which you shall find vpon them.
2. Low, mean, or unprincipled in character or conduct; knavish.
1598Shakes. Merry W. ii. ii. 276 At that time the iealious-rascally-knaue her husband will be forth. 1682Lond. Gaz. No. 1688/4 Some rascally Boys (whom we call here Coal stealers). 1752Hume Pol. Disc. x. 188 Our common soldiers are such a low rascally set of people. 1816Scott Antiq., I have so often warned you of the knavery of that rascally quack. 1887Spectator 5 Nov. 1496 The mock-marriage effected with the connivance of a rascally valet.
3. Appropriate to a rascal or rascals.
1596B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. i. iii, These same abominable, vile,..rascally verses. a1677Barrow Serm. Wks. 1716 I. 276 As it is a raskally delight..which men feel in wreaking spite. 1706E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 20 By a rascally Recommendation to the Board, he endeavours to reward him at the publick Cost. 1818Scott Rob Roy viii, A rascally calumny, which I was determined to probe to the bottom. 1862Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Hallib. i. xvii. 94 This is not the first time he has attempted a rascally action under cover of my name.
4. Wretched, miserable, mean.
1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. v. iii. 101 A whorson rascally tisicke so troubles me..that [etc.]. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 375 At the foot of these Mountains there are some rascally Innes. 1728Morgan Hist. Algiers I. Pref. 18, I am unpardonable in quoting noble Greek authors from rascally Translations. 1830Cobbett Rur. Rides (1885) II. 337 A rascally heap of sand and rock, and swamp, called Prince Edward's Island. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 317 If we rescue the cattle we can be summoned..all the way to that rascally hole of a township.
Comb.1821Cobbett Rur. Rides (1885) I. 21 A more rascally looking place I never set my eyes on.
So ˈrascally adv., in a rascally manner.
1627E. F. Hist. Edw. II (1680) 128 A garment..tatter'd rascally. 1749Fielding Tom Jones viii. iii, You have used me rascally, and I will not pay you a farthing. 1824Murder Mr. Weare 225 They two have used me rascally. |