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UK
/ɹˈɒɡwɪʃ/
]
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
- Not even his roguish, cutthroat crew of miscreants would do that.
- Romantic comedies pitch likeable young girls with roguish rough men, usually resulting in a personality transformation for the latter as he falls in love with the girl of his dreams.
- Certainly there's a picaresque or roguish quality to many of the characters and elaborately exaggerated situations presented here, but that only tells part of the tale.
- His left eye was covered with a black eyepatch, giving him a roguish look.
- Now Empire is reporting that Rapunzel will be voiced by Mandy Moore, and that Chuck’s Levi will voice what’s being described as a roguish bandit in the Digital, 3D-animated, musical, action-adventure feature. Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi in Disney’s Rapunzel
- Her principal charm was a laughing, hoydenish countenance and roguish eyes. The Titan
- Not even his roguish, cutthroat crew of miscreants would do that.
- He cultivated the twinkle in his eye and the roguish charm of his manner. THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
- Estrada, who spent much of his term gambling and carousing, was a roguish former movie star who most Filipinos believe disgraced his office and their nation. PEOPLE POWER II