roguishness
Example Sentences
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"Len was different to anyone else in the dancing business - he was a wonderful character, he had a roguishness about him - he had twinkle," he said in a statement online.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2023
That right-brained roguishness, the linguist John McWhorter tells us, sets profanities apart from ordinary words, which are mediated by the comparatively sober left brain.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2021
The other good news—I guess it’s all good news today!—is that this is pretty age-appropriate roguishness, and not something you have to worry too much about.
From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2020
The charismatic southerner with a gift for leadership and a tendency for roguishness?
From The Guardian ● Dec. 29, 2015
That's my secret, John," she used to say, with much roguishness, "an' ye maun confess that there 's ae thing ye dinna ken.
From Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers by Ian Maclaren
