Meanings of rascally fellow in English

The English temperament does not turn readily on even the most rascally fellow beings in distress.

After he returned to England he was put in prison for debt by a rascally fellow he had employed.

My chief creditor is, unhappily, my most bitter enemy -a rascally fellow, Sam Brewer, whom I was once compelled to horsewhip on Newmarket Heath.

He was impudent, sly, profligate, and a rascally fellow; but also obedient, devoted, discreet, and faithful, and his good qualities made me overlook his defects.

The rascally fellows want all sorts of conditions.

"I am sorry for him," said I, "though he is a rascally fellow."

[Footnote 8: Blücher exclaimed on this occasion: "He's a rascally fellow that dares to say we fly."

"No," answered Tyrrell, "I had business, at Newmarket, with a rascally fellow of the name of Dawson.