What's the difference between hooligan and rascal?

Hooligan


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Associating themselves with the freedom demonstrations has given Pegida protests an air of moral respectability even though there are hundreds of rightwing extremists in their midst, as well as established groups of hooligans who are known to the police, according to Germany’s federal office for the protection of the constitution.
  • (2) Three members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot are facing two years in a prison colony after they were found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, in a case seen as the first salvo in Vladimir Putin's crackdown on opposition to his rule.
  • (3) While Egypt's military rulers were quick to blame football hooliganism, a group of hardline Al Ahly fans, known as ultras, accused the police of intentionally letting rivals attack them because of their historic antipathy to the security forces and their role at the forefront of anti-Mubarak protests a year ago.
  • (4) Russian prosecutors have launched a criminal case against the media tycoon Alexander Lebedev on charges of hooliganism for punching a fellow billionaire on a television programme.
  • (5) Tolokonnikova, 23, Alekhina, 24, and Samutsevich, 29, have been charged with "hooliganism on the grounds of religious hatred", with a maximum sentence of seven years in prison.
  • (6) Later, Platini added: “I supported Mr Blatter in 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010 but now it is perhaps time to get some fresh air into the governing body of the world.” In his speech, Platini also warned of the dangers of a rise in nationalism across Europe and a return to the hooliganism of the 1980s inside football stadiums.
  • (7) On Friday, Maria Alyokhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Yekaterina Samutsevich were found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, receiving a two-year prison sentence.
  • (8) Do they see the Pussy Riot performers as prisoners of conscience or as hooligans causing deep offence to Russia's state religion?
  • (9) Indeed, yesterday – almost unremarked – it was reported that Maria Alyokhina, one of the two imprisoned musicians, was being transferred from the labour camp in the Perm region, where she has been serving two years for hooliganism for performing a song, to another prison in central Russia.
  • (10) They were sentenced to two years in prison for "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred".
  • (11) All the protesters have been released on bail, but all face possible trial on charges of hooliganism, which has a maximum penalty of seven years.
  • (12) "The media like to paint a picture of hooligans and thugs, mindless men on the rampage.
  • (13) The force also developed the technique of using FIT surveillance officers to monitor crowds, a technique first used against football hooligans in the late 1990s that has since been adopted by forces across the country.
  • (14) He was also recently thrown out of Wembley Stadium for hooliganism during England's 3-0 victory over Peru.
  • (15) The Russian newspaper and airline owner was due to stand trial on Thursday for alleged hooliganism on charges that carry a maximum prison sentence of five years, after being prosecuted for punching Sergei Polonsky on a television show but the hearing was put back by several weeks.
  • (16) They have been reviled as vandals, hooligans and lunatics.
  • (17) Four climbers accused of repainting the Soviet star on one of Moscow's Stalinist skyscrapers in Ukrainian colours , and hanging a Ukrainian flag, are facing up to seven years in prison on charges of hooliganism.
  • (18) But it's not just some hooligan's tag, like Google's artless Irish scam.
  • (19) Eyewitnesses spoken to by the Guardian said there was more to the violence than pure football hooliganism, the reason put forward by the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces, which has ruled Egypt since Mubarak's removal.
  • (20) The Greenpeace activists look set to be charged with a clause of the hooliganism law that covers actions carried out by an organised group and has a maximum charge of seven years.

Rascal


Definition:

  • (v.) One of the rabble; a low, common sort of person or creature; collectively, the rabble; the common herd; also, a lean, ill-conditioned beast, esp. a deer.
  • (v.) A mean, trickish fellow; a base, dishonest person; a rogue; a scoundrel; a trickster.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the common herd or common people; low; mean; base.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Later, Dizzee Rascal drew big crowds in Tower Hamlets as he ran through the streets where he grew up, throwing his trainers into the throng and running in his socks.
  • (2) She is talking to Dizzee Rascal, who at least has the decency to goon around for the camera.
  • (3) You can throw out rascally councillors or governments, but the contracts will go on regardless.
  • (4) There is a new thirst for characters, for mischief-makers and rascals, for politicians whose mistakes make them more accessible to the rest of us.
  • (5) If they are not rascally Tories making mischief or communist infiltrators, then they are leftie romantics, their heads in a dwam and full of ideals incompatible with modern, monetarist Britain.
  • (6) I read so many books when I was a kid that I didn’t even know were shaping me up.” Stormzy review – accessible flow that shows his range Read more When Omari was 10, two big moments happened: he became too old for Book Trail and Dizzee Rascal ’s Boy In Da Corner was released.
  • (7) So if the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man makes it to the next World Series... 12.10am GMT National Anthem Rascal Flatts.
  • (8) The transition from the uncompromising aggression and personalised sonic militancy of Dizzee Rascal's first two albums, to the Day-Glo chart-topping triptych of Dance Wiv Me, Bonkers and Holiday seems similarly without precedent.
  • (9) As he ambles into the small interview room at Munich’s Säbener Strasse in a plain black T-shirt and trainers, Alaba is unassuming to the point of being shy, a little at odds with his reputation as a social-media prankster – his oeuvre contains a series of shots of the midfielder Franck Ribéry dozing and a nearly-nude double-selfie with his former team-mate Mitchell Weiser, in thongs – and as a typically Viennese lausbub (rascal) who once told the club’s former president Uli Hoeness that he had to “think about” an allegation by a concerned member of the public that he was painting the town red with Ribéry in Munich.
  • (10) China must be aware that Palmer’s rampant rascality serves as a symbol that Australian society has an unfriendly attitude toward China.
  • (11) Not only did this life-affirming piece of mischief make the perfect counterpoint to the self-harming entrepreneurial initiative of the emaciated illusionist, it also enabled a TV audience of millions to get a taste of music they might not otherwise have heard, as Jus' a Rascal was beamed around the world as the unofficial soundtrack to the much sought after news footage of the end of Blaine's 44-day fast.
  • (12) In the sequence that may have caused most puzzlement among non-Britons, Boyle examined the rise of social media through a miniature soap opera, complete with a guest appearance from Sir Tim Berners-Lee and a collaged soundtrack racing from My Generation and My Boy Lollipop through Tiger Feet and Pretty Vacant to Dizzee Rascal live in the stadium.
  • (13) Dizzee Rascal: I Luv U Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dizzee Rascal's debut single was a blackly comic tale of teenage pregnancy set to grinding electronics and related in an edge-of-panic scream.
  • (14) Over the past few years, the UK charts have been transformed by British-born urban pop artists, such as Chipmunk, Tinchy Stryder, Dizzee Rascal, N-Dubz, JLS, Taio Cruz… and every one of these No 1 artists is a Nando's lover.
  • (15) Further down the line lay the Notting Hill riots of 1958, Joe Harriott at Ronnie Scott's, the Notting Hill street carnival, the Equals singing Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys, the Clash singing Police and Thieves, football fans throwing bananas at black players, black players becoming international captains, Lenny Henry offering to be repatriated to Dudley, Paul Gilroy's There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack, the Brixton and Toxteth riots of 1981, Janet Kay trilling Silly Games on Top of the Pops, Courtney Pine's Jazz Warriors, the London Community Gospel Choir, the Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra, Benjamin Zephaniah turning down an MBE, pirate radio, natty dread, funki dred, drum'n'bass, dubstep, grime, Dizzie Rascal.
  • (16) (For a demonstration of the awkwardness its members have sometimes displayed in trying to adapt to the 21st century, readers with a taste for schadenfreude are invited to search YouTube for clips of the hip-hop artist Dizzee Rascal performing there live last year.)
  • (17) Written in the Rascal (Real-time Pascal) programming language, the program runs on the Macintosh family of microcomputers.
  • (18) The show will feature performances from Lily Allen, Jay-Z and Lady Gaga, while organisers have promised a special version of You Got the Love from Florence and the Machine with Dizzee Rascal (otherwise known as the inevitable Brits mash-up.)
  • (19) In Britain they can at least throw the rascals out.
  • (20) Spooky Bizzle , DJ and producer of Slew Dem crew, says: "If it wasn't for the tunes that built the foundation, like Danny Weed's Creeper , Dizzee Rascal's Hoe , Wiley's Eskimo or Youngstar's Pulse X " – the record considered the first-ever grime release, from early 2002 – "or even watching my peers around me constructing their own grime beats, then I wouldn't be doing what I do now."