noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
old
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Yet, in spite of everything, David Miller grew up to idolise the old rascal .
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He is not a character I like at all because I think he was just an old rascal .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
old devil/rascal etc
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A true old devil, Manson vanishes in a puff of smoke.
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He is not a character I like at all because I think he was just an old rascal.
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I really miss the old devil.
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Impotent old devils and dried-up hags always deride the efforts of the young.
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Not that he's the worst of them, poor old devil.
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There was one old devil with red eyes.
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Yet, in spite of everything, David Miller grew up to idolise the old rascal.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although I loved him dearly, he was a bit of a rascal and liked the drink far too much.
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He is not a character I like at all because I think he was just an old rascal .
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Like his father the rascal , the son has never stopped believing, and he, too, leans into life.
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Marian Haughton bought a watercolor of her grandchildren, rascals around a table.
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The rascal dropped his bold eyes and slunk away.
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Yet, in spite of everything, David Miller grew up to idolise the old rascal .