rascalize

verb

rascalize

verb

Etymology From rascal + -ize.

1

Rare 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!1831, Robert Adair M'Naghten, Miscellaneous Verses, page 193:
  • 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, […]2015, Charles Ginenthal, Stephen J. Gould & Immanuel Velikovsky:

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