ROGUES Synonyms: 108 Similar and Opposite Words

rogues

noun

plural of rogue

as in villains

a mean, evil, or unprincipled person a rogue who had nothing but contempt for people who made their living honestly

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as in monkeys

an appealingly mischievous person the little rogue always seems to end up being forgiven for his pranks

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Recent Examples of rogues While mega oil and gas companies pay for some of the greatest intelligence in the world, even the world's greatest intelligence gatherers are subject to the whims of rogues with missile launchers. — Brian Sullivan, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026 Among the Batman’s rogues whom the BTAS crew adored, Bane didn’t quite fit in, even beside relatively recent additions to the comics. — Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2026 Actual rogues tend to skulk in corners and nick your smartphone. — Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2026 But the word thug as a term for rogues and thieves lived on in English. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026 Streetwise rogues in the mould of an enigmatic leader… there are certainly parallels between Diego Simeone’s Atletico Madrid and Tommy Shelby’s Peaky Blinders. — Guillermo Rai, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2026 Old Eight Eighty—I Among all the rogues in history, no class has been more persistent than counterfeiters, and only thieves have been more numerous. — David Grann, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025 Among the colorful cast of rogues, villains, queens and clergymen, Andre The Giant stands out as the young suitor’s kind-hearted but stupid brute. — Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025 This quiz will test your knowledge, challenge your assumptions, and maybe even teach you something new about the rocky rogues of our solar system. — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 18 Sep. 2025

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Noun

Directed by Grammy Award-winning filmmaker James Mackel, the visual is three-and-a-half minutes of spy stuff, our hero, dressed to impress, making short work of the many villains who lurk in her hotel.

— Lars Brandle, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2026
One of Batman’s creepiest villains is descending upon the box office this weekend.

— Jordan Moreau, Variety, 23 Oct. 2026

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Here, in the heart of an expansive park filled with birds and monkeys, is a refuge from the frenzy of this teeming metropolis.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Long-range inhibitory neurons marked by the activity of these genes have been known for some time, based on studies in monkeys, but researchers couldn’t figure out how to manipulate them using these genes.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of monkeys

Noun

These brutes commonly exceed 50 pounds.

— Keith Sutton, Outdoor Life, 18 June 2026
In Raspail’s tale, hordes of impoverished and dark-skinned brutes from India descend onto French shores by way of rafts, the first wave of an invasion of the civilized West by the brown-skinned developing world.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Apr. 2026

Definition of brutes

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That same month, criminals nabbed a $4 million diamond necklace from Vienna’s Museum of Applied Arts (MAK).

— Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2026
For decades, Hollywood actor Danny Trejo’s bread and butter was playing gangsters, prison inmates and other assorted criminals.

— Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of criminals

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Of all the former rascals, Symoné has enjoyed the longest and most successful career in entertainment.

— Andrew Walsh, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Jan. 2026
In the years since 2004’s Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Penn’s carved out a niche embodying big-talking, attention-grabbing rascals who say inappropriate things, then shrug their way through the consequences.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026

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Yet the greatest of these monsters is Poseidon himself, the great disruptor, the earth-shaker and master of the stormy seas.

— Jeff DeGraff, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
First, as medical courier Bryan Hodukavich in Resident Evil, he was forced to contend with an onslaught of mutant zombie monsters.

— Megan McCluskey, Time, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of monsters

Noun

Among the English-speaking settlers, the events at Lake George would be remembered as a massacre, and the Indigenous people whose home this was, whose conventions of war did not match those of the European empires, were called savages.

— James Whorton Jr, Longreads, 13 Oct. 2026
And potentially discover treasure that will keep the savages at home from tearing the place down.

— Barry Collins, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026

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