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

They operated on an edge, two sides of the same coin: discipline and roguishness.

From Slate • Mar. 28, 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

Statham brought an affable roguishness to rollicking gangster movies, a quality he has never entirely lost; he was the glue that held the whole thing together.

From The Guardian • Jun. 8, 2017

Yours is a butterfly nature——” “But butterfly natures are nice; aren’t they, Mr. Hepworth?” and Patty looked up at him with the roguishness that she could never quite control.

From Patty's Social Season by Wells, Carolyn