Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Behavior characteristic of a rogue.
- n. A mischievous act.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The life of a vagrant; vagabondism.
- n. Knavish tricks; cheating; fraud; dishonest practices.
- n. Waggery; arch tricks; mischievousness.
Wiktionary
- n. malicious or reckless behaviour
- n. mischievous behaviour
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete The life of a vargant.
- n. The practices of a rogue; knavish tricks; cheating; fraud; dishonest practices.
- n. Arch tricks; mischievousness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others
Examples
“Scott's brother was wounded and afterwards arrested & lodged in jail at Bilboe's instance -- charge "roguery" --”
Diary of Jason Niles (1814-1894) : June 22, 1861-December 31, 1864,
“Emperor Charles V., an accomplished soldier and a learned historian -- such was the creator of the hungry rogue Lazarillo, and the founder of the "picaresque" school of fiction, or the romance of roguery, which is not yet extinct.”
“So all he gained by his roguery was a burnt skin and nothing to show for it; and that has happened more than once to rogues whose wits are so sharp that they cut their own fingers with them.”
“We live, Augustus, in an age eminently favorable to the growth of all roguery which is careful enough to keep up appearances.”
“I do not think that the grand, old anti-slavery pioneer went to his grave thinking there was any 'roguery' in me.”
“The general complained to the governor of Pennsylvania on May 24 about the folly of Mr. Dinwiddie and the roguery of the Assembly, and unless the road of communication from your province is opened and some contracts made . . .”
“To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the world ...”
“And then the face that was turned to his was the face of the Little Lady of the Big House, the mouth smiling mischievously, the eyes filled with roguery, as she said:”
“Mr. Kelly writes sympathetically, not mockingly, of Shelby, and he has a proper appreciation for the brazen roguery of Doc Kearns, whose greed and manipulativeness made the fight possible — and doomed Shelby's self-promotional hopes.”
““Lord Jarret had a look of roguery about him,” Annabel said stoutly.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘roguery’.
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Test Prep or Just for fun
Building a list for standardized test prep or just for learning some new words! Please add any words that you feel are important for the SAT/GRE/GMAT etc...
throng, morass, parley, facile, kismet, strife, jetsam, carrion, annex, harbinger, vestige, surreptitious and 575 more...
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It Gives
What follows is an exercise in ordinary eternal hyperlexity, prepared in the fashion of paper matches.
fixity, commonalia, fourchette, acroamatic, etiolate, exuviae, roguery, frustrum, plenum, lowlihood, knack, surd and 2 more...
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Lexicomaniac
cicatrix, ingeminate, durcheinander, crêpe, soporific, papaverous, archaic, enucleate, falchion, gravitic, pseudorandom, thorp and 10 more...
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Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young ...
These words are from Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady, 1747-48
adumbrate, virago, varlet, rencounter, akimbo, palliate, amanuensis, amok, equipage, cully, se'ennight, resentments and 560 more...
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Words gathered while reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.
refectory, soutane, ha-ha, jewelly, girt, centenary, collywobbles, coadjutor, catafalque, beeftea, pierhead, bedad and 235 more...
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Gil Blas
Interesting words and usages from Smollett's 1749 translation of Lesage's L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane
reck, durance, rhodomontade, hangdog, trap, lustre, pin, boggle, dandle, birthday suit, colic, gripes and 238 more...
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nether's list
adroit, recrudescent, ecclesiastical, canaille, philologian, ignoble, dilettante, vicegerant, gilt, enfiladed, somnambulism, gamin and 215 more...
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Awesome words
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ouphe, hoiden, piddle, defenestrate, flic, desist, avast, cessation, extrapolate, temerity, effrontery, presumptuousness and 54 more...
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simple & useful8
sullied, mincing, portentous, barbarism, gesticulate, multiplicative, legerdemain, shibboleth, rekindling, ragamuffins, glacially, frothily and 63 more...
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Just kidding
Words that mean joke
chouse, dido, antic, roguery, ropery, apery, daft, jape, shavie, razz, quipster, morology
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yarb I dilated all my pilgrimage, and he spake of most disastrous chances, of moving accidents through which he had passed even from his boyish days to this very moment of his ripe and rampant roguery.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 5 ch. 1 Sep 19, 2008