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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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The rogue bear enjoyed his soak last Friday, according to the Associated Press.
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Scary things happen: rogue coconuts, burning hair, poisonous snakes.
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Those nefarious deals and minor rogues end up being a small part in the overall design of the season, but there’s just so much attention paid to it — attention that could have gone elsewhere.
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The plan involves cleaning up rogue fibers on surfaces using wet-wiping and vacuums with HEPA (high-efficiency particulate air) filters, and making necessary repairs, Locke said.
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As portrayed with loose-limbed brio by recent Salem State University graduate Chris Kandra (a find), Gerry is one of those rogues who seems to believe his own blarney.
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Trump imagines that America unbound, shaking hands or giving the finger, depending upon short-term interests and Presidential whims, will flourish among the other rogues.
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But lots of folks are disputing that notion, since the Trump-Kim sit-down produced no verifiable proof that the rogue regime will discontinue its nuclear program.
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By personally negotiating terms for North Korea abandoning its nuclear weapons with the rogue country's reclusive leader - something previous American presidents did not do - Trump put his brand of transactional, mano-a-mano diplomacy to a test.
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Origin and Etymology of rogue
of obscure origin
NEW! Time Traveler
First Known Use: 1561
in the meaning defined at sense 1
See Words from the same yearrogue 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;
Related Words
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
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: 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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The thing with fentanyl is, rogue chemists can alter its makeup just slightly and change the drug to create new, sometimes even more powerful, and hard-to-identify fentanyl types.
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According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration website, rogue waves are extremely rare but there are several known causes .
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And the report uncovered new texts between those two rogue FBI agents having an affair, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
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Yet, in Tehran, Trump’s enthusiastic outreach to a rogue nation with a history of human rights and nonproliferation violations renewed accusations of U.S. hypocrisy.
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There are doubts that rogue agents could have carried out the attack without approval from the top levels of Russian government.
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The idea is if a rogue nation, such as North Korea, launched a single ICBM toward an American target, it could be destroyed before striking down.
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Pyongyang has for decades proliferated weapons to rogue states including Iran and Syria, says Bruce Bechtol, a professor of political science at Angelo State University who has authored several books on North Korea.
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Like Barack Obama, Mr Trump inherited a country tired of being the world’s policeman, frustrated by jihadists and rogue states like Iran, and worried by the growing challenge from China.
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Origin and Etymology of rogue
derivative of 1rogue
NEW! Time Traveler
First Known Use: 1835
in the meaning defined at sense 1
See Words from the same yearrogue 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
noun
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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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