roguishness
Example Sentences
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"Len was different to anyone else in the dancing business - he was a wonderful character, he had a roguishness about him - he had twinkle," he said in a statement online.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2023
That right-brained roguishness, the linguist John McWhorter tells us, sets profanities apart from ordinary words, which are mediated by the comparatively sober left brain.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2021
The other good news—I guess it’s all good news today!—is that this is pretty age-appropriate roguishness, and not something you have to worry too much about.
From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2020
Statham brought an affable roguishness to rollicking gangster movies, a quality he has never entirely lost; he was the glue that held the whole thing together.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 8, 2017
They were singularly lovely eyes—retaining something of their girlish roguishness.
From Otherwise Phyllis by Gibson, Charles Dana
