rascalize

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English

Etymology

From rascal +‎ -ize.

Verb

rascalize (third-person singular simple present rascalizes, present participle rascalizing, simple past and past participle rascalized)

  1. (transitive, rare) To slander or disparage as a rascal.
    • 1831, Robert Adair M'Naghten, Miscellaneous Verses, page 193:
      "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!
    • 2015, Charles Ginenthal, Stephen J. Gould & Immanuel Velikovsky:
      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, []