rapscallion
/ɹæpˈskæljən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.61 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "“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."
- "She was the sister who had remained within the pale; I, the rapscallion of a brother whose vagaries were trying to his relations."
- "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."
- "But I’m the kind of rapscallion who often prefers the very good to the GREAT."
- "[H]e is dressed in such a rapscallion manner that the people would think you were talking to a house-breaker."
- ""I baint a-going to give my master's property to a lot of rapscallion thieves and robbers like you.""