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Roguish adj.

Vagrant. (Obs.) "His roguish madness Allows itself to anything."

Resembling, or characteristic of, a rogue; knavish.

Pleasantly mischievous; waggish; arch. "The most bewitching leer with her eyes, the most roguish cast."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Roguish" Quotes from Famous Books

... tenderness. The light footstep moved about the kitchen, followed by the sound of the sweeping brush, hardly making so much noise as the lightest breeze that chases the autumn leaves along the dusty path; and Adam's imagination saw a dimpled face, with dark bright eyes and roguish smiles looking backward at this brush, and a rounded figure just leaning a little to clasp the handle. A very foolish thought—it could not be Hetty; but the only way of dismissing such nonsense from his head was to go and see WHO it was, ...

— Adam Bede • George Eliot

... fiacre wore a little tinkling bell that somehow added to the charm of the night. A waterfall, unseen, tumbled and frothed near by. A turn in the winding road brought them to an open stretch, and they saw the world bathed in the light of a yellow, mellow, roguish Paris moon. And Max Tack leaned over quietly and kissed Sophy Gold on ...

— Cheerful--By Request • Edna Ferber

... can shew thee two of the most perfect, rare and absolute true Gulls, that ever thou saw'st, if thou wilt come. 'Sblood, invent some famous memorable lie, or other, to flap thy Father in the mouth withal: thou hast been father of a thousand, in thy days, thou could'st be no Poet else: any scurvy roguish excuse will serve; say thou com'st but to fetch wool for thine Ink-horn. And then, too, thy Father will say thy wits are a wool- gathering. But it's no matter; the worse, the better. Anything is good ...

— Every Man In His Humour • Ben Jonson

... thalers and four groschen. The two thalers pay for the ridiculous, and the four groschen pretty much for the useful.'" Again, he tells us that Lessing concludes his notice of Klopstock's Ode to God "with these inimitably roguish words: 'What presumption to beg thus earnestly for a woman!' Does not a whole book of criticism lie in these nine words?" For a young man of twenty-two, Lessing's criticisms show a great deal of independence and maturity ...

— Among My Books - First Series • James Russell Lowell

... face, barely tinted with color, dully wondering why it should be so different from the one roguish, pathetically innocent, that had haunted him all ...

— Rezanov • Gertrude Atherton

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