rogues
Example Sentences
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Affecting a tough-guy realism, Mr. Bockino is contemptuous of antigambling officials in the era before legalization and tolerant of the worst rogues.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 13, 2026
The single star was painted in berry juice, as was the bear, which looked so porcine that Mexicans who were struggling to protect California from Yankee rogues mocked it as more pig than bear.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 13, 2026
The reverence I had unwittingly infiltrated a culture of rogues & thieves posing as police.
From Salon β Jan. 31, 2023
When interviewed by the BBC years later, Stirling said he deliberately recruited brave and unconventional rogues.
From BBC β Nov. 26, 2022
“I think you’re a couple of old rogues, but you may well have something,” Wilkins wrote from London on March 18, 1953.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
