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Zhu, meanwhile, once labelled rogue bankers as "half-wits" and described the flood dykes lining the Yangtze River as "flimsy and porous as tofu dregs".

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

It indicates a "systemic problem which transcends one rogue doctor and one rogue clinic", according to the British Fertility Society.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Watch the video above to see why these likely aren’t the last incidents of models going rogue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

A bike racing controversy that doesn’t involve a rogue doctor and a midnight raid by the gendarmerie?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

It was the work of a rogue Louvre employee who’d hidden the painting in the museum.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

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

A member of Batman’s colorful rogues gallery, the criminal mastermind is always engaged in a deadly game with the Dark Knight, using riddles and witty wordplay to thwart him and authorities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2023

The reverence I had unwittingly infiltrated a culture of rogues & thieves posing as police.

From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2023

“Those rogues were protecting their underhanded operation more than you,” Grandma huffed.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

“And we’ve had our fun,” he boasted, “and speaking of sweethearts and all,” he cribbed from Kipling, “‘We’ve rogued and we’ve ranged - ’” “‘In our time,’” Slim completed the crib for him.

From The Red One by Jack London

Chapman says, on reading these letters and hearing all the case, that he never heard of any man being more shamefully treated,—that I have been outrageously rogued and robbed throughout.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Edmund Downey

The practice enters into every hour of every-day life, and the greatest knave that ever rogued never cheated the world half as often as he cheated himself!

From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever

Does he think I will see Squire Rawdon rogued out of his home?

From The Man Between, an International Romance by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

I've rogued and I've ranged in my time, and The things that I learned from the yellow and black, They 'ave helped me a 'eap with the white.

From Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Potato roguing brings together people from all over the world It is essential to be fit to become a roguer, though it is also important to know what to look for.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2012

For Maciej, a former Aberdeen University student, an offer to go seed potato "roguing" turned out to be the right opportunity.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2012

These roguing thieves serve the great pirate Valdes; And they hav seized Marina.

From Pericles by William Shakespeare

The "roguing," as nursery-men call the destroying of varieties, which depart from their type, is a kind of selection.

From Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Sir Francis Darwin

Sirrah, must I stand waiting your Leisure, while you are roguing here?

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Montague Summers