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UK
/ɹˈɒɡwɪʃ/
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ADJECTIVE
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lacking principles or scruples
the tyranny of a scoundrelly aristocracy
the rascally rabble
the captain was set adrift by his roguish crew -
playful in an appealingly bold way
a roguish grin
How To Use roguish In A Sentence
- This particular sea - cuny, I admit, blushed through his sea tan till the Lady Om's eyes were twin pools of roguishness in their teasing deliciousness and my arms were all but about her. Chapter 15
- It's that roguish spirit that unites these tracks into a glorious whole.
- She was a mature lady with dyed ginger hair and a roguish grin.
- And butches now find themselves suddenly ‘performing masculinities’ instead of carrying on a fine old regular roguish Dyke tradition like they thought they were doing.
- a roguish grin
- I meant to convey not just his strange, slow but charismatic drawl but also his character - unsentimental, tough to the point of roguishness with an unadvertised, indeed sometimes concealed heart of gold.
- As it would be for a parson to step up to the pulpit one Sunday, look hard at his congregation, and with a roguish grin announce, "It's all a load of hooey! Rush Limbaugh tries to horn in on my vacation
- I treasure a bulging mental file of his roguish observations on fellow critics and luminaries in the music trade.
- The groom, who had a roguish side, pulled Alison into a showy clasp, and the priest stepped back and led the quick applause for the couple, forestalling the biddies who would later complain that the ceremony had lacked dignity.
- Now I can pursue them with impunity; I can reinvent myself as a roguish sophisticate, a literary hunk. LOVE YOU MADLY