roue
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Like an aging roue looking back on halcyon days, the House Un-American Activities Committee has tried to sanitize its image.
From Time Magazine Archive
The complication which besets all love is, in this case, the roue Duke of Venice.
From Time Magazine Archive
In his private life he is a drab roue, and his public life is just as futile.
From Time Magazine Archive
Paul Lukas, the only actor in Hollywood who can speak with a foreign accent without seeming to be a roue, handles the situation with delicacy.
From Time Magazine Archive
No doubt the Robichaux roue was thus attracted to them.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
None of this has prepared him to play a pre-revolutionary roué, he said.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2016
And there is a reason Britain’s staid Economist magazine refers to Trump’s “look of a roué gone to seed.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2016
Dire moves to curtail Pyros’s activity may be unnecessary, some specialists say, because there are signs the shaggy roué has lost a step.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2016
A libertine history and the look of a roué gone to seed would not in themselves preclude the support of evangelical Christians, who are, after all, keen on repentance.
From Economist ● Mar. 3, 2016
It is true that we have still a long step to make before we sink to the mere roué, the shameless scapegrace and cynical man about town of the Restoration.
From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Sir Leslie Stephen
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