rapscallion

noun

1. (dated)A rascal, scamp, rogue, or scoundrel.

   ““If I get away I sha’n’t be here,” I says, “to prove these rapscallions ain’t your uncles, and I couldn’t do it if I was here. I could swear they was beats and bummers, that’s all, though that’s worth something.”

   “She was the sister who had remained within the pale; I, the rapscallion of a brother whose vagaries were trying to his relations.”

   “She had a studio built for him on a loft of the carriage house behind the family mansion when he was only ten years old, and she hired a rapscallion German cabinetmaker, who had studied art in Berlin in his youth, to give Father drawing and painting lessons on weekends and after school.”

   “But I’m the kind of rapscallion who often prefers the very good to the GREAT.”

adj

1. Disreputable, roguish.

   “[H]e is dressed in such a rapscallion manner that the people would think you were talking to a house-breaker.”

   “"I baint a-going to give my master's property to a lot of rapscallion thieves and robbers like you."”