roguish

Example Sentences

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Dressed in a brown leather jacket, crisply pressed blue jeans and a cream-colored cowboy hat, he sticks out his hand and says, “I’m Charley with an –ey,” then flashes a roguish grin.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2025

Earlier, on the way into her village, we drove past a jodhpur-clad gent on a horse, who gave us a roguish, charming smile.

From BBC • Sep. 30, 2024

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

“He has boyish charm and likeability, that impish, roguish element to him,” Seymour said.

From Washington Times • May 31, 2023

“I was speaking to my Champion,” Dorian said with a roguish wink.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas