rascally

The word “rascally” has 3 syllables: ras-cal-ly

It's pronounced as /ˈɹæs.kə.li/


What is synonym and antonym for rascally?

In the thesaurus, “rascally” has 212 synonyms and 49 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for rascally along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for rascally

  • annoying
  • antic
  • apostate
  • arch
  • arrant
  • artful
  • bad
  • badly behaved
  • base
  • bawdy
  • beguiling
  • blue
  • bothersome
  • canting
  • casual
  • coarse
  • coltish
  • contrary
  • corrupt
  • coy
  • crafty
  • criminal
  • crooked
  • cunning
  • damaging
  • dangerous
  • deceitful
  • deceiving
  • deceptive
  • degenerate
  • deleterious
  • delicate
  • deluding
  • delusive
  • depraved
  • destructive
  • detrimental
  • devil-may-care
  • devilish
  • devious
  • dishonest
  • dishonorable
  • disloyal
  • disobedient
  • disorderly
  • double-dealing
  • down and dirty
  • duplicitous
  • earthy
  • elfin
  • elfish
  • elvish
  • energetic
  • evil
  • exasperating
  • faithless
  • falsehearted
  • fast
  • fiendish
  • filthy
  • flagitious
  • flippant
  • forsworn
  • foul
  • foul-mouthed
  • foxy
  • fractious
  • fraudulent
  • free and easy
  • fresh
  • frisky
  • frolicsome
  • froward
  • gay
  • giddy
  • gross
  • happy
  • harmful
  • hazardous
  • headstrong
  • hurtful
  • ill
  • ill-behaved
  • impish
  • indecent
  • indecorous
  • infamous
  • iniquitous
  • injurious
  • insidious
  • insubordinate
  • intractable
  • irksome
  • jaunty
  • juicy
  • kittenish
  • knavish
  • lascivious
  • leprechaunish
  • lewd
  • licentious
  • lighthearted
  • little
  • lively
  • lying
  • malevolent
  • malicious
  • malignant
  • mean
  • minute
  • misbehaving
  • mischievous
  • misleading
  • mythomaniac
  • naughty
  • nefarious
  • obstreperous
  • off-color
  • offhand
  • out of line
  • perfidious
  • perilous
  • perjured
  • pernicious
  • pert
  • perverse
  • pestering
  • petite
  • pixie
  • pixieish
  • pixy
  • playful
  • prankish
  • precarious
  • puckish
  • puny
  • purple
  • racy
  • rascal
  • raunchy
  • raw
  • recalcitrant
  • recreant
  • refractory
  • renegade
  • reprehensible
  • reprobate
  • riling
  • risky
  • rogue
  • roguish
  • rough
  • rowdy
  • rude
  • salacious
  • salty
  • saucy
  • scabrous
  • scampish
  • scoundrelly
  • scurrilous
  • shifty
  • sinful
  • slick
  • slight
  • sly
  • smutty
  • sneaky
  • spicy
  • spirited
  • spiteful
  • sportful
  • sportive
  • sprightly
  • teasing
  • tiny
  • tough
  • traitorous
  • treacherous
  • treasonable
  • trickish
  • tricksy
  • tricky
  • troublemaking
  • troublesome
  • two-faced
  • unbecoming
  • underhand
  • underhanded
  • unfaithful
  • ungovernable
  • unhealthy
  • unmanageable
  • unprincipled
  • unruly
  • unscrupulous
  • untrustworthy
  • untruthful
  • venal
  • vexatious
  • vexing
  • vicious
  • villainous
  • waggish
  • wanton
  • wayward
  • whimsical
  • wicked
  • willful
  • wily
  • worthless
  • wrong

Antonyms for rascally

  • accurate
  • actual
  • behaved
  • calm
  • chaste
  • clean
  • controlled
  • correct
  • decent
  • factual
  • frank
  • genuine
  • good
  • grave
  • grim
  • honest
  • honorable
  • just
  • kind
  • known
  • moderate
  • moral
  • nice
  • noble
  • obedient
  • open
  • polite
  • precise
  • pure
  • real
  • refined
  • reliable
  • right
  • sedate
  • smooth
  • sober
  • solemn
  • sophisticated
  • staid
  • stern
  • straight
  • subdued
  • substantiated
  • true
  • truthful
  • unmischievous
  • upright
  • valid
  • virtuous

Example Sentences

  • The rascally boy played tricks on his older sister.
  • His rascally grin revealed that he was up to something mischievous.
  • The rascally cat knocked over the vase on purpose.
  • She laughed at his rascally sense of humor.
  • The pirate’s rascally ways made him both feared and admired.

On this page you'll find 261 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to rascally, such as: accurate, actual, annoying, antic, apostate, arch, arrant.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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  • satanism
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  • serious
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  • shabbily
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  • sickened
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  • sin
  • sinful
  • sinfulness
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  • skimp
  • skimpily
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  • somber
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  • sorrowful
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  • sourish
  • spare
  • sparely
  • spiteful
  • splashy
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  • suboptimal
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  • worthless
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  • yucky
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dabbling

  • amateurish
  • amusing
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  • artsy fartsy
  • bare
  • cavorting
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  • coy
  • crude
  • cut short
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  • defective
  • deficient
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  • delaying
  • delightful
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  • elfish
  • energetic
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  • formless
  • found wanting
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  • frisking
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  • frivoling
  • frivolous
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  • fun
  • gamboling
  • gambolling
  • gay
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  • goofy
  • green
  • half-baked
  • half-cocked
  • half-done
  • hanging
  • hanging about
  • happy
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  • immature
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  • in the making
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  • incomplete
  • jesting
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  • jocund
  • joking
  • kittenish
  • knavish
  • lacking
  • larky
  • lighthearted
  • lively
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  • merry
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  • natural
  • not done
  • pixie
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  • plain
  • playful
  • playing
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  • poking
  • prankish
  • procrastinating
  • procrastination
  • puttering
  • rascally
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  • screwing around
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  • spirited
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  • tenderfoot
  • tentative
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  • unaccomplished
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  • under construction
  • undeveloped
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  • unfashioned
  • unfulfilled
  • ungifted
  • unperfected
  • unpolished
  • unrefined
  • unskilled
  • vivacious
  • wanting
  • whimsical

deceiving

  • Pecksniffian
  • ambidextrous
  • ambiguous
  • apocryphal
  • apostate
  • apparent
  • artful
  • artificial
  • astucious
  • astute
  • backbiting
  • backhanded
  • backstabbing
  • bamboozling
  • base
  • beguiling
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  • bent
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  • bigoted
  • bleeding
  • bluffing
  • bogus
  • buffaloing
  • bum
  • burning
  • canting
  • casuistic
  • casuistical
  • catching
  • catchy
  • cheating
  • chimeric
  • chimerical
  • chiseling
  • chiselling
  • circuitous
  • clandestine
  • concocted
  • confounding
  • conning
  • contrary to fact
  • cooked-up
  • corrupt
  • counterfactual
  • counterfeit
  • coveting
  • cozening
  • crafty
  • crooked
  • cunning
  • deceitful
  • deception
  • deceptive
  • defaming
  • defrauding
  • degrading
  • deluding
  • delusive
  • delusory
  • demagogic
  • designing
  • devilish
  • devious
  • diddling
  • dishonest
  • dishonesty
  • dishonorable
  • dishonoring
  • disingenuous
  • disloyal
  • disreputable
  • dissembling
  • distorted
  • distracting
  • doing a number on
  • double-crossing
  • double-dealing
  • duping
  • duplicitous
  • elusive
  • equivocal
  • erroneous
  • ersatz
  • euchring
  • evasive
  • faithless
  • fake
  • faking out
  • fallacious
  • false
  • falsehearted
  • fanciful
  • fantastic
  • fast
  • faulty
  • feigned
  • feline
  • fictitious
  • fishy
  • fleecing
  • flimflamming
  • fooling
  • forged
  • forsworn
  • foul
  • foxy
  • fraudulent
  • furtive
  • gaffing
  • gammoning
  • goody-goody
  • groveling
  • grudging
  • guileful
  • gulling
  • having
  • having on
  • hoaxing
  • holier-than-thou
  • hoodwinking
  • hornswoggling
  • humbugging
  • hustling
  • hypocritical
  • illogical
  • illusive
  • illusory
  • imaginary
  • impish
  • impostrous
  • imposturous
  • improper
  • inaccurate
  • incorrect
  • indirect
  • inexact
  • insidious
  • insincere
  • invalid
  • irrational
  • jive
  • juggling
  • kidding
  • knavish
  • leading one down the garden path
  • leading one up the garden path
  • left-handed
  • lying
  • mad
  • malevolent
  • malicious
  • mean
  • mendacious
  • misguiding
  • misinforming
  • misleading
  • misrepresentative
  • mistaken
  • mock
  • mulcting
  • mythomaniac
  • naughty
  • oblique
  • off
  • off the mark
  • ostensible
  • perfidious
  • perjured
  • perplexing
  • pharisaical
  • phoney
  • phony
  • pietistic
  • pious
  • plausible
  • playful
  • preachy
  • puckish
  • putting on
  • puzzling
  • quarreling
  • quixotic
  • rascal
  • rascally
  • reasonless
  • recreant
  • renegade
  • roguish
  • rooking
  • scheming
  • scolding
  • scoundrelly
  • seeming
  • self-satisfied
  • serpentine
  • shady
  • sham
  • shaming
  • shifty
  • shortchanging
  • sinister
  • skinning
  • slick
  • slippery
  • sly
  • smug
  • sneaking
  • sneaky
  • snide
  • snookering
  • snowing
  • sophistic
  • sophistical
  • specious
  • spoofing
  • spurious
  • squeezing
  • stealthy
  • sticking
  • stinging
  • stringing along
  • stuffy
  • subtile
  • subtle
  • suckering
  • sucking in
  • swindling
  • taking in
  • teasing
  • traitorous
  • treacherous
  • treasonable
  • trick
  • tricking
  • trickish
  • tricky
  • trumped-up
  • two-faced
  • two-timing
  • unctuous
  • underhand
  • underhanded
  • unfair
  • unfaithful
  • unfounded
  • ungrounded
  • unprincipled
  • unreal
  • unreasonable
  • unreasoned
  • unreliable
  • unscrupulous
  • unsound
  • untrue
  • untrustworthy
  • untruthful
  • venal
  • villainous
  • visionary
  • way-off
  • wicked
  • wily
  • wrong

elfin

  • absorbing
  • alluring
  • appealing
  • arresting
  • attractive
  • beckoning
  • bewitching
  • captivating
  • charismatic
  • charming
  • darling
  • delicate
  • delightful
  • devilish
  • disobedient
  • elfish
  • enchanting
  • engaging
  • engrossing
  • enthralling
  • enticing
  • entrancing
  • exciting
  • fascinating
  • fetching
  • frolicsome
  • galvanic
  • glamorous
  • glamourous
  • gripping
  • haunting
  • hypnotic
  • hypnotizing
  • impish
  • interesting
  • intriguing
  • inviting
  • little
  • luring
  • magnetic
  • mesmerizing
  • minute
  • misbehaving
  • naughty
  • petite
  • playful
  • pleasant
  • pleasing
  • prankish
  • puckish
  • puny
  • rascally
  • riveting
  • seductive
  • slight
  • spellbinding
  • sprightly
  • tantalizing
  • tempting
  • tiny
  • titillating
  • winning

elfish

  • amusing
  • antic
  • coltish
  • coy
  • dabbling
  • delightful
  • devilish
  • diverting
  • elfin
  • energetic
  • enjoyable
  • entertaining
  • fay
  • frisky
  • frivolous
  • frolic
  • frolicsome
  • fun
  • gay
  • goofy
  • happy
  • impish
  • jesting
  • jocose
  • jocular
  • jocund
  • joking
  • kittenish
  • knavish
  • larky
  • lighthearted
  • lively
  • merry
  • mischievous
  • naughty
  • pixie
  • pixy
  • playful
  • pleasant
  • pleasing
  • pleasurable
  • prankish
  • rascally
  • roguish
  • rollicking
  • silly
  • spirited
  • sportful
  • sportive
  • sprightly
  • spunky
  • teasing
  • trifling
  • vivacious
  • whimsical

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