roguery

• He gave us the whole account of his adventures in the country,--roguery and all--and was very entertaining. —  Two Years Before the Mast
• Talking about roguery, there was a curious incident occurred some time back, in which a rascal was completely outwitted. —  Olla Podrida
• The boy was turned of sixteen; an age in England when youth does not yet put on the appearance of manhood; and he retained all the evidences of a gay, generous boyhood, rendered a little piquant_, by the dash of archness, roguery, and fun, that a man-of-war is tolerably certain to impart to a lad of spirit. —  The Two Admirals
• Let us hope the parallel will hold good for the gentleman who so amiably endeavored to send the Kansas to the bottom of the Pacific," said Christobal It is rather a rotten trick," broke in Tollemache, "just a bit of Spanish roguery-- Well, I'm sorry, Christobal, but I can't regard you as quite a Spaniard, you see Nevertheless, I am one," and the doctor stiffened visibly What Tollemache means is that he would expect you to take the English and straightforward view of a piece of rascality, doctor." —  The Captain of the Kansas
• "It is a piece of d---- roguery," he said What do you mean by that, sir?" —  Can You Forgive Her?

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

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