rogues
Example Sentences
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Affecting a tough-guy realism, Mr. Bockino is contemptuous of antigambling officials in the era before legalization and tolerant of the worst rogues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Nancy Dunnachie, 65, the widow of a former Morton's Rolls employee tells BBC Scotland: "He kept going on about how they were a 'shower of rogues'."
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2025
“One of the peculiarities of squares is their screwy propensity to glorify rogues and scoundrels.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2024
The reverence I had unwittingly infiltrated a culture of rogues & thieves posing as police.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2023
The mother declared we should none of us leave, that she would not stir upon the river with such rogues as we; that none of us should use the boat.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
