How To Use Roguish In A Sentence

  • 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
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  • 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
  • His persona there is what I suppose you would call roguish, impish, twinkling or some similarly emetic term and he simply cannot afford to get Private Eye involved in anything remotely controversial or interesting because of the danger that his mainstream audience would drop him as fast as Gerald Ratner's customers dropped him if they found out that he was mixed in in any real world nastiness like proper investigative journalism. Iain Dale's Diary
  • Valery is a cheerful person with roguish brown eyes and an engaging smile.
  • The piece is pretty and roguish, but is never anything more than predictable.
  • And there was, strangely enough, what Craddock could only describe as a roguish twinkle in her faded blue eyes. A Murder Is Announced
  • Mammy arter him with the broom-stick as fur as the door, but seein 'the dog has got the start, she shakes the stick at him, and hollers,' You sassy, aigsukkin ', roguish, gnatty, flop-eared varmint! take it along! take it along! The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.)
  • Prithee, good Motley," he questioned, "what should bring so rare a Fool to lie in dungeon fettered and gyved along of innocent rogues and roguish robber? The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
  • ’ (He vividly recalled the roguish black eyes of Mlle. Roland and her smile.) ‘But after all, while she was in the house, I kept myself in hand. Chapter II. Part I
  • 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
  • I have no evidence to back up this sort of malfeasant roguish claim.
  • My suspicion about the long-lived and very tiresome bacon craze is that the rise of vegetarianism and veganism, dietary choices often (but by no means always) promoted by the smug and priggish, has lent meat-eating a kind of roguish cachet, like letting your child go to play-date without his elbow pads. Stefan Beck: Meatopia: Meat-Up on Governors Island (PHOTOS)
  • Their only real diversions are the films shown at the local picture house, along with the odd illicit screening of banned pictures smuggled into the country by a roguish hotel owner.
  • David Myers' novel The Bohemian Bourgeois is the true inheritor of that line, his protagonist's name appropriately alliterative, his behaviour equally roguish.
  • he roguishly intended to keep the money
  • Presently, when I had come near to being comfortable, there chanced a lightsome step upon the floor behind me, and, turning, I discovered that Mistress Madison was surveying me with a roguish and somewhat amused air. The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'
  • The roguish upcasting of starry eyes, and the deprecating little manner, tied my tongue for the instant. The Love Story of Abner Stone
  • This something frequently covers a good deal of ground, for with one or two of the boys it means pranks or roguishness of some sort, which really enlivens the whole household and keeps our risibles from growing rusty by disuse. A Woman who went to Alaska
  • Now I can pursue them with impunity; I can reinvent myself as a roguish sophisticate, a literary hunk. LOVE YOU MADLY
  • My dear man of moods! my good vagabond! my windlestraw of circumstance! constant only to one ideal -- the unattainable perfection in a kind of roguish art. Doom Castle
  • And her heart seems a perennial spring of affectionate cheerfulness: no trial can break, no sorrow chill, her flow of spirits; even her sighs are breathed forth in a wrappage of innocent mirth; an arch, roguish smile irradiates her saddest tears. Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
  • Until one day, the appearance of a mysterious killer and a roguish cop broke the peace.
  • Roguish building blocks appear to be recklessly stacked, squiggle across scoured plazas or bend upward or away as if seen through a curved lens.
  • He's a creation of note, that's for sure: smug, weasely, roguish.
  • One of them, deliciously and roguishly handsome as a faun, with the eyes of a faun, wore a flaming double-hibiscus bloom coquettishly tucked over his ear. THE BONES OF KAHEKILI
  • Until one day, the appearance of a mysterious killer and a roguish cop broke the peace.
  • Satyrs are described as roguish but faint-hearted folk — subversive and dangerous, yet shy and cowardly. Pan and Satyrs
  • He looked healthy, even roguish with the smattering of gray in his hair, but there was neither quiet certainty about him nor a smile. SUDDENLY
  • She was a mature lady with dyed ginger hair and a roguish grin.
  • In the 1759 editions, in place of the long passage in brackets from here to page 215, there was only the following: "'Sir,' said the Perigordian Abbé to him, 'have you noticed that young person who has so roguish a face and so fine a figure? Candide
  • Now I can pursue them with impunity; I can reinvent myself as a roguish sophisticate, a literary hunk. LOVE YOU MADLY
  • Once again flashing a roguish grin, he added, "But he's George's favorite actor-which is very telling of George.
  • A head followed, thatched with long elfin locks, and then a face, with roguish black eyes, lined with the marks of wildwood's laughter. THE DEVILS OF FUATINO
  • The roguish Milo steals the show and is completed Maura, his wife, in a more consolatory role.
  • Consider a dog who espies a roguish-looking fellow down the street. INSIDE OF A DOG
  • He flinched and heard Alec mutter something low and broguish. Heaven Lake
  • Rudely puffed the winds of heaven; roguishly clomb up the all-destructive urchin; and, lo! in a moment night re-established her void empire, and the cit groped along the wall, suppered but bedless, occult from guidance, and sorrily wading in the kennels. Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
  • His eyes were bright blue with a roguish twinkle in them.
  • She a-sweep-in 'up the hath; the meat on the table -- old Trailler jumps up, gethers the bacon and darts! mammy arter him with the broom-stick, as fur as the door -- but seein' the dog has got the start, she shakes the stick at him and hollers, 'You sassy, aig-sukkin', roguish, gnatty, flop-eared varmint! take it along! take it along! Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches. By a Country Editor. With a Portrait from Life, and Other Illustrations, by Darley
  • Well-born but impecunious younger brothers kidnap heiresses and roguishly attempt to persuade them into matrimony.
  • He's intelligent, roguish and utterly plausible making every action both incredible and utterly believable.
  • In Solitary Man, written and directed by the team of Brian Koppelman and David Levien and opening Friday (5/21/10) in limited release, Kalmen is played by Michael Douglas with exactly the kind of roguish charm that Douglas has perfected over the course of his career. Marshall Fine: Movie review: Solitary Man
  • the captain was set adrift by his roguish crew
  • Well-born but impecunious younger brothers kidnap heiresses and roguishly attempt to persuade them into matrimony.
  • The actor's roguish, rough-and-tumble approach isn't well-suited to playing a heroic type, and his version of the Greek king lacks both presence and charisma.
  • Edgar is an ex-stuntman who hides his machismo behind a roguish grin.
  • John winked at me with the roguish charm for which he is renowned and I took it as camaraderie.
  • His face cracks into a lop-sided, roguish grin.
  • He became a movie legend by thrilling audiences with his high-spirited adventures, roguish charm, and dashing good looks.
  • collogue," as they expressed it; but also the little gossoons in their ragged trousers and bare feet, and the girleens, with their curly hair, and roguish dark-blue eyes, to scuttle in also. Light O' the Morning
  • Now I can pursue them with impunity; I can reinvent myself as a roguish sophisticate, a literary hunk. LOVE YOU MADLY
  • 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.
  • I treasure a bulging mental file of his roguish observations on fellow critics and luminaries in the music trade.
  • 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 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.
  • 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.
  • She was a mature lady with dyed ginger hair and a roguish grin.
  • The company is a decidedly mixed bunch, and inevitably a few ‘dirty stories’ are told by the more roguish members of the group.
  • Only one nation above all others is a threat to world security and peace, and that nation is the most "roguish" of all. Comments on Helen Caldicott's New Book Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer
  • he winked at her roguishly
  • Predecessor, first induing a mask like some roguish roistering The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863
  • She sings about her roguish paramours with a strange mixture of melancholy, bitterness and nostalgia, leading one to question whether these kinds of men really exist today.
  • I have a hard time imagining that this character in the novels is quite the shaggy surfer dude with a vestigial southern accent and laid back roguish charms that he is in the film.
  • With his trousers hoisted slightly too high above his waist, long grey hair grazing his collar and a roguish glint in his eye, he charmed us all instantly with a combination of naivety and directness.
  • He is the sort of womaniser who never allows himself to stay in a relationship for too long, while she hasn't counted on being won over by his roguish charms.
  • Bill, roguish but engaging and relaxed, held the crowd rapt.
  • There is an awkward hero, there are a whole band of roguish characters, and there is the requisite bad guy.
  • Very early the next morning, a fraction past six, Vincent heard an alarm sound in the next room followed by a low, broguish curse. Heaven Lake
  • It's that roguish spirit that unites these tracks into a glorious whole.
  • With her roguish good humor and her unself-consciousness, she has a presence that simply pops.
  • The author's energetic, often tongue-in-cheek prose style, together with his ability to blend roguish satire, pathos, and picturesque description, had a profound influence upon the popular culture of his day.
  • Dom and Matt exchanged knowing looks and roguish smiles, and Chris grave an exaggerated groan.
  • Any indignity that Villa Kennan chose to inflict upon him he was throbbingly glad to receive, such as doubling his ears inside out till they stuck, at the same time making him sit upright, with helpless forefeet paddling the air for equilibrium, while she blew roguishly in his face and nostrils. CHAPTER XXI
  • Yes, at first this Sam Raimi (Spider-Man, Drag Me To Hell) and Rob Tapert (Xena: Warrior Princess) produced show was known as the roguish series with lots of blood and lots of boobs. 5 Shows You Should Be Watching | CurveHouse.com
  • They are brought together after 17 years when the roguish patriarch returns to the fold, apparently dying of cancer.
  • When this newspaper first denounced Mr Berlusconi, many Italian businesspeople replied that only his roguish, entrepreneurial chutzpah offered any chance to modernise the economy.
  • I do my best to look like a roguish flâneur, staring moodily at the passers-by. LOVE YOU MADLY
  • He lends Pseudolus his own brand of roguish geniality: even the moment when his eyes lasciviously follow a courtesan's rotating hips is purged of offence by his unthreatening charm.

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