roue

Example Sentences

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Interrupting his trial, the jazzy “Come Up to My Office” imagines Frank wholly out of character as a suave roué.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2023

Cohen’s persona in this middle passage was as a dapper roué, captured by the title of 1977’s Death of A Ladies’ Man, for which Elrod took the cover shot.

From The Guardian • Nov. 13, 2016

None of this has prepared him to play a pre-revolutionary roué, he said.

From New York Times • Sep. 20, 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

The lady is the clergyman’s wife, and the man is the old roué who is waiting for his friend who has won his ten thousand pounds.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward