roguish

Example Sentences

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But Gouzer said he expects Banksy’s market to keep rebuilding, thanks to a fresh influx of younger tech collectors and international wild-card buyers who admire the roguish way Banksy skewers societal ills.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

The crime-fighting combo of a roguish guy and a no-nonsense gal is familiar from “Moonlighting” and “Castle.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2025

In “The Crown,” he played a roguish friend of Prince Philip; he was the unreliable father of Dr. Jean Milburn’s baby on “Sex Education” and the resentful husband on Lucy Prebble’s “I Hate Suzie.”

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2024

Starring alongside her is Ed Skrein, who plays the main villain Admiral Atticus Noble, and Charlie Hunnam who plays Kai, a roguish pilot and smuggler.

From BBC • Dec. 12, 2023

She smiled, a perfect, roguish, Lucy Ricardo smile.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman