roguery
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But if publishing building safety standards online is an act of roguery, it is time for the courts to take a hard look at what copyright is for.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 26, 2019
The roguery and raillery are in place, and he has a pleasing way with a song, but his instincts for clowning undermine his suavity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2019
He looks upon the Trojan War, and all the warriors who risk their lives in it, with a vision that strips all noble motives away and sees only lechery, roguery, and knavery.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 9, 2016
It combined his characteristic psychological acumen with a bit of graphic roguery.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2015
For a time, we were entertained by Will and John's ready store of wit and comic roguery as they engaged each other in kicking games.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
But in general their merry rogueries were highly profitable.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had chosen a kingdom in the west where he saw a "new way of measuring our jerky hopes and graceful rogueries and awkward sorrows."
From Time Magazine Archive
The trickster was the late unctuous, sniveling Daniel Drew, the cattle-watering one of the simplest and earliest of his many business rogueries.
From Time Magazine Archive
The more honest availed themselves of this advantage merely for their defence; the crafty and the wicked profited by it to assure themselves of success in their rogueries, and impunity from their results.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro
I might have a wife, too,' he added, 'and maybe half a score of children to plague me out of my five wits with their rogueries.'
From Parson Kelly by Lang, Andrew
