My pet mouse is a rapscallion; she keeps escaping from her cage!
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Rapscallion
//ɹæpˈskæljən//
Synonyms for "rapscallion" (83 found)
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Translations
6 translations across 4 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- вагабонт noun (rascal)
- негодяй noun (rascal)
Finnish
2 entries- kelmi noun (rascal)
- viikari noun (rascal)
Russian
1 entries- негодяй noun (rascal)
Spanish
1 entries- gamberro noun (rascal)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
“If I get away I sha’n’t be here,” I says, “to prove these rapscallions ain’t your uncles, and I couldn’t do it if I was here. I could swear they was beats and bummers, that’s all, though that’s worth something.
Source: wiktionary
She was the sister who had remained within the pale; I, the rapscallion of a brother whose vagaries were trying to his relations.
Source: wiktionary
She had a studio built for him on a loft of the carriage house behind the family mansion when he was only ten years old, and she hired a rapscallion German cabinetmaker, who had studied art in Berlin in his youth, to give Father drawing and painting lessons on weekends and after school.
Source: wiktionary
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