roguery

How To Use roguery In A Sentence

• Any compromise with this scourge of majoritarian roguery, or any delay in quashing and quelling it out of existence, would only destroy democracy.
• Emperor Charles V., an accomplished soldier and a learned historian -- such was the creator of the hungry rogue Lazarillo, and the founder of the "picaresque" school of fiction, or the romance of roguery, which is not yet extinct. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction
• The general complained to the governor of Pennsylvania on May 24 about the folly of Mr. Dinwiddie and the roguery of the Assembly, and unless the road of communication from your province is opened and some contracts made . . . George Washington’s First War
• Now, he was faced with their roguery that was reaching a fever pitch, under the guise of divine influence.
• Scott's brother was wounded and afterwards arrested & lodged in jail at Bilboe's instance -- charge "roguery" -- Diary of Jason Niles (1814-1894) : June 22, 1861-December 31, 1864,
• I just love a guy with the bit of roguery about him.
• His wife still admired him, though; she who had once been so fine, his perfect twin except for a slight turn in the toe that had seemed to him a coquettish bit of roguery.
• Poor Relief was introduced for the deserving poor, while at the same time for the rogues it was whipping and, if they continued in their roguery, death for felony.
• You see, part of the immense appeal of the film to me as a child was the sheer roguery of its anti-hero.
• I do not think that the grand, old anti-slavery pioneer went to his grave thinking there was any 'roguery' in me. Frederick Douglass The Colored Orator.