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Examples of rogue in a Sentence
- Many of the vagabonds were rogues and cheaters of various kinds, and formed a subcommunity on the fringes of official society. —Charles Barber, Early Modern English, 1976
- Cartier decided that the two boys were a choice pair of rogues who would probably try to run him aground if taken as pilots, and that he would dispense with their services. —Samuel Eliot Morison, The European Discovery of America, 1971
- His account of their discoveries in the low life of a seaport town would have made a charming book, and in the various characters that came their way the student might easily have found matter for a very complete dictionary of rogues. —W. Somerset Maugham, Moon and Sixpence, 1919
He's a lovable old rogue.
a rogue who had nothing but contempt for people who made their living honestly
Recent Examples of rogue from the Web
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He also detailed measures taken to limit how and what types of information third parties can collect about Facebook users and increased digital security and policing of rogue users to cut down on interference on elections.
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The rogue raccoons are in all likelihood gravely ill.
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That replaces a lower hurdle of 10,000 lifetime views, which the site instituted last spring, after a first wave of negative stories about rogue content.
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Shutting down rogue Stingrays is an expensive proposition that would require wireless network upgrades the industry has been loath to pay for, security experts say.
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Shutting down rogue Stingrays is an expensive proposition that would require wireless network upgrades the industry has been loath to pay for, security experts say.
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Wallcourt House, thanks to a rogue sprinkler that ruined the entire interior pre-restoration, didn’t contain too many details to riff off of.
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But a rogue Kaiju emerges from the sea, and Jake, a former Ranger pilot who flamed out and now spends his time partying and bartering on the black market, is pressed to re-enlist as a get-out-of-jail-free card.
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Those haters seem hellbent on convincing the public that Gary Oldman belongs in the rogues gallery of true abuser predators.
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Origin and Etymology of rogue
rogue Synonyms
Synonyms
baddie (or baddy), beast, brute, devil, evildoer, fiend, heavy, hound, knave, meanie (also meany), miscreant, monster, nazi, no-good, rapscallion, rascal, reprobate, savage, scalawag (or scallywag), scamp, scoundrel, varlet, villain, wretch;
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criminal, crook, culprit, felon, lawbreaker, malefactor, offender, perp, perpetrator, transgressor;
sinner, trespasser, wrongdoer;
cad, heel, serpent, snake, viper;
bandit, bravo, desperado, outlaw;
assassin, cutthroat, gangster, goon, gunman, hoodlum, hooligan, racketeer, ruffian, thug;
Definition of rogue
rogued;
roguing
or rogueing
: to weed out inferior, diseased, or nontypical individuals from a crop plant or a field
Origin and Etymology of rogue
Definition of rogue
1
: resembling or suggesting a rogue elephant especially in being isolated, aberrant, dangerous, or uncontrollable
- capsized by a rogue wave
3
: of or being a nation whose leaders defy international law or norms of international behavior
- rogue states
Examples of rogue in a Sentence
- Americans assume that our country was built by rogue males but there's more to the breed than wanderlust and rugged individualism. —Florence King, National Review, 27 Aug. 2007
- Perhaps more important, defense planners worried for the past year about the instability of the Soviet Union and the nightmare that a rogue Soviet submarine skipper might decide on his own to launch close to 200 warheads at U.S. targets. —John Barry, Newsweek, 3 June 1991
- In "The In-Laws," Alan Arkin is a dentist led astray by a rogue C.I.A. operative … , whose son his daughter is marrying, and he winds up dodging bullets on a Caribbean island. —Terrence Rafferty, New Yorker, 30 July 1990
a rogue administrator who took bribes to falsify paperwork
Recent Examples of rogue from the Web
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No nation can succeed in the long run by promoting rogue states, brutal tyrants, and murderous dictators.
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No nation can succeed in the long run by promoting rogue states, brutal tyrants, and murderous dictators.
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No nation can succeed in the long run by promoting rogue states, brutal tyrants, and murderous dictators.
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No nation can succeed in the long run by promoting rogue states, brutal tyrants, and murderous dictators.
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But a rogue genetic experiment gone awry mutates this gentle ape into a raging creature of enormous size.
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There is a big difference between these two rogue tires, as the one from Harvick’s Stewart-Haas Racing team is clearly rolling away toward traffic.
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My hope has always been that if there's real teeth behind this that the results are so widespread that people understand the problems are with NCAA rules, not rogue and thoughtless actors.
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With the ruling, Hulsey and his deputies will be able to get back to work for the county and stop rogue truck companies violating the law.
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Origin and Etymology of rogue
rogue Synonyms
Synonyms
crooked, deceptive, dishonest, double-dealing, duplicitous, fast, fraudulent, guileful, shady, sharp, shifty, underhand, underhanded;
Antonyms
Near Antonyms
conscientious, decent, ethical, honorable, just, scrupulous, upright;
Related Words
unconscionable, unethical, unprincipled, unscrupulous;
deceitful, deceiving, deluding, delusive, delusory, false;
artful, beguiling, cagey (also cagy), crafty, cunning, foxy, slick, sly, subtle, wily;
defrauding, devious, furtive, slippery, sneaking, sneaky, trickish, tricky;
ROGUE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of rogue for English Language Learners
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: a man who is dishonest or immoral
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: a man who causes trouble in a playful way
rogue
Definition of rogue for English Language Learners
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—used to describe something or someone that is different from others in usually a dangerous or harmful way
ROGUE Defined for Kids
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Definition of rogue for Students
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: a dishonest or evil person
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: a pleasantly mischievous person
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