Rascal vs. Scoundrel — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Rascal and Scoundrel
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Rascal
One that is playfully mischievous.
Scoundrel
A villain; a rogue.
Rascal
An unscrupulous, dishonest person; a scoundrel.
Scoundrel
A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a person without honour or virtue.
Rascal
Made up of, belonging to, or relating to the lower classes
"Nor shall the Rascal Rabble here have Peace" (John Dryden).
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Scoundrel
A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a man without honor or virtue.
Go, if your ancient, but ignoble bloodHas crept through scoundrels ever since the flood.
Rascal
A dishonest person; a rogue, a scoundrel, a trickster.
Scoundrel
Low; base; mean; unprincipled.
Rascal
Sometimes diminutive: a cheeky person or creature; a troublemaker.
That little rascal bit me!
If you have deer in the area, you may have to put a fence around your garden to keep the rascals out.
Scoundrel
A wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately
Rascal
(Papua New Guinea) A member of a criminal gang.
Rascal
(archaic) Low; lowly, part of or belonging to the common rabble.
Rascal
One of the rabble; a low, common sort of person or creature; collectively, the rabble; the common herd; also, a lean, ill-conditioned beast, esp. a deer.
He smote of the people seventy men, and fifty thousand of the rascal.
Poor men alone? No, no; the noblest deer hath them [horns] as huge as the rascal.
Rascal
A mean, trickish fellow; a base, dishonest person; a rogue; a scoundrel; a trickster.
For I have sense to serve my turn in store,And he's a rascal who pretends to more.
Rascal
Of or pertaining to the common herd or common people; low; mean; base.
While she called me rascal fiddler.
Rascal
A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
Rascal
One who is playfully mischievous
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