roue
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Paul Lukas, the only actor in Hollywood who can speak with a foreign accent without seeming to be a roue, handles the situation with delicacy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like an aging roue looking back on halcyon days, the House Un-American Activities Committee has tried to sanitize its image.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Rumania the sanctity of the orthodox patriarch of the National Church, His Holiness Miron Cristea, is not held to be impaired by his national reputation as a onetime roue.
From Time Magazine Archive
In his private life he is a drab roue, and his public life is just as futile.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Do you seriously think that Claude roue wants marriage?”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Dire moves to curtail Pyros’s activity may be unnecessary, some specialists say, because there are signs the shaggy roué has lost a step.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2016
A libertine history and the look of a roué gone to seed would not in themselves preclude the support of evangelical Christians, who are, after all, keen on repentance.
From Economist ● Mar. 3, 2016
In 1985, Mr. Jourdan toured nationally in a popular but critically drubbed stage version of “Gigi,” this time as the aging roué portrayed onscreen by Chevalier.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2015
He's 50 now, and happily married with his first child, so his days as the ruby-toothed, actress-squiring, restaurant-owning roué are behind him.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 2, 2010
Howard, the husband, though a roué, at last went into the quadrangle at St James's and publicly demanded his wife.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 by Various
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