All rascal synonyms
ras·cal
R r adj rascal
- deceptive — If something is deceptive, it encourages you to believe something which is not true.
- ill-behaved — 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties. 2. Software that bypasses the defined operating system interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software. In the IBM PC/mess-dos world, there is a folk theorem (nearly true) to the effect that (owing to gross inadequacies and performance penalties in the OS interface) all interesting applications are ill-behaved. See also bare metal. Opposite: well-behaved, compare PC-ism.
noun rascal
- malefactor — a person who violates the law; criminal.
- worm — Write-Once Read-Many
- gamin — a neglected boy left to run about the streets; street urchin.
- monkey — any mammal of the order Primates, including the guenons, macaques, langurs, and capuchins, but excluding humans, the anthropoid apes, and, usually, the tarsier and prosimians. Compare New World monkey, Old World monkey.
- antagonizer — a person who antagonizes people, or provokes hostility: The leader was an antagonizer of the peasantry. Compare antagonist.
- bad actor — a mean, ill-tempered, troublemaking, or evil person.
- huns — a member of a nomadic and warlike Asian people who devastated or controlled large parts of eastern and central Europe and who exercised their greatest power under Attila in the 5th century a.d.
- barbarian — In former times, barbarians were people from other countries who were thought to be uncivilized and violent.
- jerk — to move with a quick, sharp motion; move spasmodically.
- fourflusher — a person who makes false or pretentious claims; bluffer.
- cullion — a despicable person
- dodger — a person who dodges.
- mischief — conduct or activity that playfully causes petty annoyance.
- waywardness — The quality of being wayward.
- lemur — any of various small, arboreal, chiefly nocturnal mammals of the family Lemuridae, of Madagascar and the Comoro Islands, especially of the genus Lemur, usually having large eyes, a foxlike face, and woolly fur: most lemurs are endangered.
- mischiefmaker — Alternative form of mischief-maker.