rascaldomn.
/ˈrɑːskldəm/, /ˈraskldəm/, U.S. /ˈræskəldəm/ 1. The world of rascals; rascals collectively; a group of rascals. Now rare.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > rogue > [noun] > world of
roguedom1697
roguery1707
loselism1831
rascaldom1833
scoundreldom1837
scoundrelry1859
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun] > rogue, knave, or rascal > collectively
roguedom1697
roguery1707
loselism1831
rascaldom1833
scoundreldom1837
scoundrelry1859
1833 T. Carlyle Diderot in Foreign Q. Rev. 11 296 He walked in the subterranean shades of Rascaldom.
1860 Athenæum 8 Sept. 313 The last Duke of Queensbury, whose death gave such regret to rascaldom.
1909 Times 12 Aug. 7/5 A few capable and reckless men can often brigade the rascaldom which exists in every great city.
1936 Hispania 19 429 Quilp and Fagin hold undisputed places as the supreme caricatures of Rascaldom.
2. Rascally behaviour.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > [noun]
truandise?c1225
lorelshipc1380
truantry1426
coquineryc1430
loselry1480
loonery?a1513
palliardrya1522
truanting1532
patchingc1535
foul play1546
patchery?1553
slavery1553
palliardy1568
smaikry1573
roguishness1579
rascality1582
roguery1594
scutchery1594
ropery1599
cullionry1611
scoundrelism1611
friponnerie1708
rascalism1837
scoundreldom1837
rascaldom1851
scoundrelship1856
rascalry1868
scallywaggery1897
scallywagism1897
scallywagging1915
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun]
truandise?c1225
lorelshipc1380
truantry1426
coquineryc1430
loselry1480
loonery?a1513
palliardrya1522
truanting1532
patchingc1535
patchery?1553
palliardy1568
roguishness1579
rascality1582
roguery1594
scutchery1594
ropery1599
scoundrelism1611
roguinga1625
friponnerie1708
rascalism1837
scoundreldom1837
scamphood1845
rascaldom1851
scoundrelship1856
rascalry1868
scallywaggery1897
scallywagism1897
scallywagging1915
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun] > instance of
roguery1592
vagabundulo1631
rascality1691
scoundrelism1773
vagabondism1841
rascaldom1851
1851 Times 28 Aug. 4/4 Many forms of fraud..would appear peculiar to the United States' practitioners in rascaldom.
1879 A. Trollope in 19th Cent. Jan. 35 I will not say that Barry Lyndon's career has deterred many from rascaldom.
1890 Spectator 22 Nov. The proportion of his precipitate of rascaldom which can be cured..in that way, is a very small one.
1970 Redemption Tidings 9 July ‘Our evangelical rascaldom’, wrote one Nurnberg reformer, ‘Makes the rascaldom of Roman priests and monks look pious.’
2004 Booklist 1 Feb. 984 Scratch panels highlighted in ocher cast an appropriately jaundiced pall over three intriguingly twisted tales of rascaldom.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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