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roguish

[ UK /ɹˈɒɡwɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. lacking principles or scruples
    the tyranny of a scoundrelly aristocracy
    the rascally rabble
    the captain was set adrift by his roguish crew
  2. 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
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