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

The may exhibit a certain naivete or roguishness or even the desire to be left alone.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2022

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

There is an immense Newfoundland lying not far from me while I write, an animal who by reason of his beauty, his bounding independence, and his very roguishness, takes all hearts by storm.

From In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life by Stables, Gordon