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

The charismatic southerner with a gift for leadership and a tendency for roguishness?

From The Guardian • Dec. 29, 2015

Ah, my dear boy, in this pencil you have at will roguishness and languor, tenderness and indifference, sprightliness, passion, malice, what you will.

From Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)