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
That loosely led, she says, to the political series "Scandal" and the legal roguishness of "Murder."
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2015
A mixture of roguishness spoiled the pretence of wonder.
From John March, Southerner by Cable, George W.
