rogue
Example Sentences
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Taylor’s career pivoted in the ’80s, when he became a professional gambler and a rogue on the Atlantic City casino strip.
From Los Angeles Times
After the Cold War, U.S. strategy made a priority of threats from “rogue states.”
It has previously highlighted the removal of more than 1,500 rogue officers and staff since 2022 and work such as the V100 project, which uses data to target the most dangerous predators.
From BBC
When agents go rogue, they can tamper with or delete valuable files.
Samuel Pepys knew him; the British diarist thought him “a perfidious rogue.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.