rascal

• assassin
• baddie
• baddy
• bandit
• beast
• beggar
• black sheep
• blackguard
• brat
• bravo
• brute
• bully
• bum
• cad
• caitiff
• cardsharp
• charlatan
• cheat
• con
• convict
• criminal
• crook
• culprit
• cutthroat
• cutup
• delinquent
• desperado
• devil
• disgrace
• disrupter
• evildoer
• felon
• fiend
• fraud
• gamin
• gamine
• gangster
• good-for-nothing
• goon
• grafter
• gunman
• heavy
• heel
• hellion
• hoodlum
• hooligan
• hound
• hypocrite
• idler
• imp
• jailbird
• juvenile delinquent
• knave
• larker
• lawbreaker
• liar
• loafer
• loser
• lowlife
• madcap
• malefactor
• meanie
• meany
• misbehaver
• mischief
• mischief-maker
• miscreant
• monkey
• monster
• nazi
• no-good
• nuisance
• offender
• opportunist
• outlaw
• perp
• perpetrator
• pretender
• prodigal
• profligate
• racketeer
• ragamuffin
• rapscallion
• recreant
• reprobate
• robber
• rogue
• rough
• rowdy
• ruffian
• savage
• scalawag
• scallywag
• scamp
• scapegrace
• scoundrel
• serpent
• sinner
• skunk
• skylarker
• snake
• sneak
• stinker
• swindler
• thug
• tough
• tramp
• transgressor
• trash
• trespasser
• trickster
• urchin
• varlet
• varmint
• villain
• villainess
• viper
• wastrel
• wretch
• wrongdoer

• angel
• beast
• boor
• cad
• churl
• clown
• creep
• cretin
• cur
• hard worker
• heel
• hero
• innocent
• joker
• knave
• louse
• lout
• miscreant
• reprobate
• saint
• scalawag
• scallywag
• scapegrace
• scoundrel
• skunk
• snake
• stinkard
• stinker
• varlet
• villain

• The little rascal hid my keys as a prank.
• That mischievous rascal always finds a way to escape trouble.
• The old man laughed and called his grandson a rascal for sneaking extra cookies.
• The playful rascal ran through the park, teasing his friends.
• He may be a rascal, but he has a heart of gold.

backslider

• AWOL
• Benedict Arnold
• Judas
• abandoner
• absconder
• actor
• ame damnee
• apostate
• attitudinizer
• back-stabber
• bankrupt
• betrayer
• bigot
• blackguard
• bluffer
• cad
• casuist
• charlatan
• cheat
• con artist
• conspirator
• criminal
• crook
• debauchee
• debaucher
• decadent
• deceiver
• decoy
• defector
• degenerate
• delinquent
• derelict
• deserter
• deviate
• dissembler
• dissenter
• dissident
• dissimulator
• double-crosser
• escapee
• escaper
• exile
• fake
• faker
• fink
• forsaker
• four-flusher
• fraud
• fugitive
• heel
• heretic
• hooky player
• humbug
• hypocrite
• iconoclast
• impostor
• incorrigible
• informer
• insurgent
• intriguer
• knave
• lawbreaker
• lecher
• libertine
• lip server
• lost sheep
• lost soul
• malingerer
• masquerader
• miscreant
• mountebank
• mutineer
• no-show
• nonconformist
• outlaw
• perv
• pervert
• pharisee
• phony
• playactor
• playboy
• playgirl
• poser
• pretender
• profligate
• quack
• quisling
• rake
• rakehell
• rascal
• rat
• rebel
• recidivist
• recreant
• refugee
• renegade
• reprobate
• rip
• rogue
• runaway
• satyr
• schismatic
• scoundrel
• smoothie
• snake
• snake in the grass
• sneak
• snitch
• snitcher
• sophist
• spy
• squealer
• stool pigeon
• swindler
• tattletale
• tergiversator
• traducer
• traitor
• treasonist
• trickster
• truant
• turnabout
• turncoat
• two-face
• two-timer
• villain
• whistle-blower
• wolf

backsliders

• bankrupts
• blackguards
• cads
• debauchees
• debauchers
• decadents
• degenerates
• delinquents
• derelicts
• deviates
• heels
• incorrigibles
• knaves
• lechers
• libertines
• miscreants
• perverts
• pervs
• playboys
• playgirls
• profligates
• rakehells
• rakes
• rascals
• reprobates
• rips
• rogues
• satyrs
• scoundrels
• villains

bad

• abhorrent
• abominable
• abominably
• abomination
• abysmal
• abysmally
• achy
• acrid
• acrimonious
• acute
• addled
• admirable
• adverse
• afflicted
• aggravating
• aggrieved
• agonized
• ailing
• airsick
• amiss
• anathema
• anguished
• annoying
• appalling
• arch
• atrocious
• atrociously
• atrociousness
• atrocity
• awe-inspiring
• awful
• awfully
• babyish
• badass
• badly
• badness
• baleful
• balefulness
• balky
• baneful
• banned
• bargain-basement
• barred
• base
• bastard
• beastly
• below par
• bilious
• bitchy
• bitter
• black
• blamable
• blameworthy
• bleak
• blemished
• blue
• broken
• brokenhearted
• brummagem
• brutal
• bum
• bush
• bush-league
• cancer
• canker
• careless
• carsick
• cast down
• catty
• caustic
• censurable
• challenged
• cheap
• cheapjack
• cheeky
• cheerless
• cheesy
• childish
• coarse
• comfortless
• common
• condemned
• conscience-stricken
• contagious
• contaminated
• contemptible
• contemptuous
• contrary
• contrite
• cool
• corroded
• corrupt
• corrupted
• corruption
• counterfeit
• crappy
• crestfallen
• criminal
• crippled
• critical
• cruddy
• cruel
• crumbled
• crumby
• crummy
• curdled
• cursed
• curst
• cussed
• cut-rate
• damaged
• damaging
• damnable
• damnably
• dangerous
• dark
• darkening
• darkness
• deadly
• debased
• debauched
• debauchery
• debilitated
• decay
• decayed
• decaying
• decomposed
• decomposing
• decrepit
• defaced
• defective
• defiant
• deficient
• deficiently
• defiled
• defiling
• degeneracy
• degenerate
• degenerated
• dejected
• deleterious
• delinquent
• deplorable
• deplorably
• depraved
• depravedness
• depravity
• deprecating
• depressed
• depressing
• derogatory
• desolate
• despairing
• despicable
• despiteful
• despondent
• destructive
• deteriorated
• detestable
• detestably
• detrimental
• devastating
• devilishness
• devilry
• deviltry
• devious
• diabolism
• difficult
• dirty
• disabled
• disadvantageous
• disagreeable
• disallowed
• disappointed
• disastrous
• disastrously
• disconsolate
• discouraged
• discouraging
• disdainful
• diseased
• disfigured
• disgraceful
• disgusting
• disheartened
• dishonest
• dishonorable
• disintegrated
• disintegrating
• dismal
• disobedient
• disobliging
• disordered
• disorderly
• disparaging
• dispirited
• displeasing
• disreputable
• disrespectful
• dissatisfactory
• dissolute
• distasteful
• distressed
• distressing
• dizzy
• doleful
• dolorous
• down
• down in the mouth
• downcast
• downhearted
• dreadful
• dreadfully
• drear
• dreary
• droopy
• egregious
• egregiously
• el cheapo
• elegiac
• elegiacal
• elfish
• enormity
• envious
• errant
• erring
• erroneous
• evil
• evil-minded
• evildoing
• evilness
• execrable
• execrably
• extreme
• fake
• fallen
• fallible
• fatal
• faulty
• feeble
• fermented
• feverish
• fiendishness
• fierce
• flagrant
• flagrantly
• flashy
• flawed
• forbidden
• forlorn
• foul
• fouled
• fragile
• frail
• from hunger
• froward
• funereal
• galling
• gangrenous
• garish
• gaudy
• ghastly
• gimcrack
• glitzy
• gloomy
• glum
• gnarly
• god-awful
• godawful
• grand
• grave
• gray
• grey
• grieving
• grim
• gross
• grossly
• guilty
• half-assed
• halt
• hangdog
• harmed
• harmful
• harsh
• hateful
• hazardous
• headstrong
• heartbroken
• heartsick
• heartsore
• heavyhearted
• heinousness
• hellish
• hideous
• hopeless
• horrendous
• horrendously
• horrible
• horribly
• horrid
• horrifically
• hostile
• hurt
• hurtful
• hypochondriac
• hypochondriacal
• icky
• ignoble
• ill
• ill-behaved
• ill-mannered
• ill-natured
• illegal
• immature
• immoral
• immorality
• impaired
• imperfect
• imperiling
• imperilling
• impish
• impolite
• imposing
• impressive
• improper
• impudent
• impure
• in pain
• inadequate
• inadequately
• inappropriately
• incapacitated
• incomplete
• inconsiderate
• inconsolable
• incorrect
• incorrectly
• indecency
• indecent
• indecently
• indecorous
• indifferent
• indisposed
• ineffective
• ineffectual
• infamous
• infantile
• infectious
• infective
• inferior
• inferiorly
• infernal
• infirm
• inimical
• iniquitous
• iniquitousness
• iniquity
• injured
• injurious
• inoperative
• insidious
• insolent
• insufficient
• insufficiently
• insurgent
• intense
• interdicted
• intimidating
• intolerably
• intractable
• invalid
• invidious
• irreverent
• irritating
• jaundiced
• jealous
• jejune
• jeopardizing
• joyless
• junky
• juvenile
• kiddish
• killer
• kitsch
• kitschy
• knavish
• lachrymose
• lacking
• lackluster
• lame
• lesser
• lethal
• libertine
• light-headed
• loathsome
• loose
• lousily
• lousy
• low
• low-grade
• low-minded
• low-rent
• low-spirited
• lugubrious
• malefaction
• malevolent
• malicious
• malign
• malignant
• marred
• meager
• meagerly
• meagre
• mean
• mean-spirited
• meanly
• mediocre
• melancholic
• melancholy
• menacing
• meretricious
• mighty
• mildewy
• misbehaving
• mischievous
• miscreant
• miserable
• miserably
• miserly
• moldering
• moldy
• monkeying
• monkeyish
• morbid
• morose
• mournful
• murky
• mutinous
• nasty
• naughtily
• naughty
• nauseated
• nauseating
• nauseous
• nefarious
• negative
• niggardly
• nocuous
• noisome
• nonbinding
• nonvalid
• noxious
• nugatory
• null
• null and void
• objectionable
• obnoxious
• obscene
• obstreperous
• odious
• odiously
• off
• offensive
• ominous
• on the blink
• opprobrious
• ornery
• ostentatious
• out of sorts
• outlawed
• painful
• paltry
• parlous
• pathetic
• peaked
• peaky
• perilous
• pernicious
• perverse
• perversion
• perverted
• pervertedness
• pestiferous
• pestilent
• pestilential
• phoney
• phony
• pixieish
• plaintive
• poisonous
• polluted
• poor
• poorly
• poxy
• prankish
• prejudicial
• prohibited
• proscribed
• puerile
• punk
• putrefied
• putrefying
• putrescent
• putrid
• qualmish
• queasy
• queazy
• rancid
• rancorous
• rank
• rascally
• rebellious
• recalcitrant
• refractory
• regretful
• remorseful
• repellant
• repellent
• reprehensible
• reprehensibly
• reprobate
• repugnant
• repulsive
• resentful
• restive
• revolting
• revulsive
• risky
• roguish
• rot
• rotten
• rottenly
• rotting
• rowdy
• rubbishy
• rude
• rueful
• ruffianly
• ruinous
• run-down
• sad
• saddened
• sassy
• satanism
• saturnine
• scandalous
• scantily
• scantly
• scanty
• scathing
• schlock
• schlocky
• scornful
• scoundrelly
• scrofulous
• scurrility
• scurrilous
• scurrilousness
• scurvy
• seamy
• seasick
• second-class
• second-rate
• seedy
• selfish
• serious
• severe
• shabbily
• shabby
• shaky
• sham
• shameful
• shlock
• shlocky
• shocking
• shoddily
• shoddy
• short
• showy
• sick
• sickened
• sickening
• sickish
• sickly
• sin
• sinful
• sinfulness
• sinister
• skimp
• skimpily
• skimpy
• sleazily
• sleazy
• slipshod
• sly
• snakelike
• snide
• snotty
• somber
• sombre
• sordid
• sorrowful
• sorry
• sour
• soured
• sourish
• spare
• sparely
• spiteful
• splashy
• spoiled
• squalor
• squeamish
• stingily
• stingy
• stinky
• suboptimal
• subpar
• substandard
• sucky
• suicidal
• sullen
• sunk
• supercheap
• swank
• swanky
• symptomatic
• taboo
• tabu
• tacky
• tainted
• tawdry
• tearful
• terrible
• terribly
• thoughtless
• threatening
• tough
• toxic
• transgressing
• trashily
• trashy
• troubled
• troublesome
• troubling
• trumpery
• turned
• ugly
• ultracheap
• unacceptable
• unacceptably
• unauthorized
• unbearably
• unbecoming
• unclean
• uncongenial
• uncontrollable
• uncouth
• under par
• under the weather
• uneasy
• unethical
• unfavorable
• unfortunate
• unfriendly
• ungodly
• ungovernable
• unhappy
• unhealthful
• unhealthy
• unholy
• unkind
• unkindly
• unlawful
• unlovely
• unloving
• unmannerly
• unpalatable
• unpleasant
• unpleasing
• unprincipled
• unquiet
• unrighteous
• unruly
• unsafe
• unsatisfactorily
• unsatisfactory
• unsavory
• unscrupulous
• unseemly
• unsound
• unspeakable
• unspeakably
• unsuitably
• untoward
• unwelcome
• unwell
• unwholesome
• upset
• upsetting
• useless
• valueless
• venomous
• vexatious
• vexing
• vicious
• vile
• vilely
• vileness
• villainous
• villainy
• vindictive
• virulent
• vitiated
• vitriolic
• void
• vulgar
• vulgarly
• wack
• waggish
• wailing
• wanting
• wayward
• weak
• weakly
• weeping
• wicked
• wickedness
• wild
• wilful
• willful
• woebegone
• woeful
• woozy
• worried
• worthless
• wretched
• wretchedly
• wrong
• wrongheaded
• yucky
• yukky

baddie

• antagonist
• antihero
• assassin
• bad actor
• bad egg
• bad guy
• bad news
• bad person
• baddy
• bandit
• beast
• black sheep
• blackguard
• bravo
• brute
• cad
• caitiff
• cheat
• con
• convict
• creep
• criminal
• crook
• culprit
• cutthroat
• dastard
• desperado
• devil
• enfant terrible
• evildoer
• felon
• fiend
• gangster
• good-for-nothing
• goon
• gunman
• heavy
• heel
• hoodlum
• hooligan
• hound
• imp
• incorrigible
• jailbird
• knave
• lawbreaker
• libertine
• loser
• lowlife
• maggot
• malefactor
• meanie
• meany
• mischief-maker
• mischiefmaker
• miscreant
• monster
• nazi
• no-good
• offender
• outlaw
• perp
• perpetrator
• racketeer
• rapscallion
• rascal
• reprobate
• robber
• rogue
• rough
• rowdy
• ruffian
• savage
• scalawag
• scallywag
• scamp
• scapegrace
• scoundrel
• serpent
• sinner
• snake
• stinker
• thief
• thug
• tough
• transgressor
• trash
• trespasser
• vagabond
• varlet
• villain
• villainess
• viper
• wretch
• wrongdoer

baddies

• assassins
• bandits
• beasts
• blackguards
• bravoes
• bravos
• brutes
• cads
• caitiffs
• cons
• convicts
• criminals
• crooks
• culprits
• cutthroats
• desperadoes
• desperados
• devils
• evildoers
• felons
• fiends
• gangsters
• goons
• gunmen
• heavies
• heels
• hoodlums
• hooligans
• hounds
• jailbirds
• knaves
• lawbreakers
• losers
• lowlifes
• lowlives
• malefactors
• meanies
• miscreants
• monsters
• nazis
• no-goods
• offenders
• outlaws
• perpetrators
• perps
• racketeers
• rapscallions
• rascals
• reprobates
• rogues
• roughs
• rowdies
• ruffians
• savages
• scalawags
• scallywags
• scamps
• scapegraces
• scoundrels
• serpents
• sinners
• snakes
• stinkers
• thugs
• toughs
• transgressors
• trash
• trespassers
• varlets
• villainesses
• villains
• vipers
• wretches
• wrongdoers

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