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rascalize

verb

Etymology

From rascal + -ize.

  1. derived from *rasicō✻ — “to scrape”
  2. derived from rascaille — “outcast, rabble”
  3. inherited from rascaile — “people of the lowest class, rabble of an army”
  4. suffixed as rascalize — “rascal + ize”

Definitions

  1. To slander or disparage as a rascal.

    • "Aye," said I, cutting him short. "there is the rub!—you had not nerve to be thought the friend of a man whom you heard rascalized, though you knew how unjustly,—then, never more be friend of mine!
    • In this game, each temporary victor rascalizes his predecessor and enthrones himself, and this is just what has occurred with Velikovsky's critics. The original Harvard group praised itself but was castigated by Asimov, […]

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