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Example sentences for "roguish"

Lexicographically close words:
rogo; rogue; rogueries; roguery; rogues; roguishly; roguishness; roiall; roight; roiled
  1. In the winter after Cinq-Mars died, Gaston returned to the Luxembourg radiant with roguish smiles; he was delighted to be in Paris.

  2. His bearing was gay and pleasant and his face was roguish and smiling.

  3. Thomas Harrison was a lively, bustling man, with a roguish twinkle in his eye, and a humorous style of talking.

  4. The domestic read his meaning in the roguish expression of his eye, and she remained silent.

  5. Whereupon the girl referred to raised her head and looked at him with the half-frowning, half-roguish look that was peculiar to her.

  6. The girl gave him her hand with a mocking, roguish expression that quite confused him.

  7. Sartinly, your honour,' replied the roguish foretopman, his eye twinkling as he saw that I enjoyed the joke.

  8. Oh, she will be a dowdy, too," replied roguish Edith.

  9. From some perverse and roguish impulse the girl chose to take no counsel in this game she had begun to play; but each woman knew that the other comprehended the situation perfectly.

  10. Grant called to his mind the vivid glory of her hair, the trick of her short upper lip in curling outward like the petal of a tea rose, a something roguish always lurking deep down in the warm pools of her eyes.

  11. Rose Tuttle, a buxom girl of eighteen, with a roguish face and an independent air.

  12. The moment the benediction was pronounced she came directly to her and greeted her with a half-deprecatory air, but with a roguish gleam in her saucy eyes.

  13. A petty fogging and roguish attorney, who attends the gaols to assist villains in evading justice.

  14. If you have, I'll go," responded Flaxie, with a roguish smile.

  15. The roguish Kitty had just told her that her little visitors were very ginteel folks, and she must talk to 'em as if she was reading it out of a book.

  16. The effect of mind upon mind," said Mrs. Noyes, with a sly, roguish smile upon the red pouting lips.

  17. You can't say that you did not raise a beau while in the Vale," cried Jennie, with a roguish twinkle of her eye.

  18. Powell "determined to see what it all meant, and to put a stop to it, if he could, went to the house, and soon became satisfied that a roguish grandchild was the cause of all the trouble.

  19. They know the thoughts of each observer, and are often pleased to bite the biter; the playfully roguish sometimes find it fun to catch rogues.

  20. Mrs Breen in man's frieze overcoat with loose bellows pockets, stands in the causeway, her roguish eyes wideopen, smiling in all her herbivorous buckteeth.

  21. Yes, and if it had been merely a tiny puppy with the smallest tin kettle tied to his tail, retreating affrightedly from roguish boys, they themselves would have been thrown into a fright indeed.

  22. But the red ear gave rights to more than one, and, in her surprise, Salina was taken unawares by some who had no roguish black eyed lady-loves laughing behind them.

  23. She soon recovered herself and looked very roguish as she continued, "Won't you kindly introduce me to the distinguished-looking stranger beside you?

  24. A grey eye is a sly eye; a brown one indicates a roguish humour; a blue eye expresses fidelity; while the sparkling of a dark eye is, like the ways of Providence, always a riddle.

  25. Equity is a roguish thing; for law we have a measure .

  26. Patty, with a roguish glance at the jesting young man.

  27. She turned, ready to freeze him with a glance more icy even than the landscape, but his frank, roguish smile disarmed her.

  28. She has a jaunty little face, that can be roguish or scornful or merry or pathetic as the little rascal chooses.

  29. He did not look up to her, and she could see the roguish smile that curled on his lips.

  30. Bagg, however, saw at once that he had a roguish air, and he was on his guard in a moment.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roguish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    antic; arch; base; comical; coquettish; deceitful; devilish; dishonest; elfish; foolish; frolicsome; impious; impish; infamous; jocose; jolly; kittenish; knavish; lying; mendacious; mischievous; naughty; notorious; playful; prankish; recreant; reprobate; roguish; shifty; sportive; tricky; unscrupulous; untruthful; vile; villainous; waggish; wicked