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roguery

[roh-guh-ree] / ˈroʊ gə ri /


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But if publishing building safety standards online is an act of roguery, it is time for the courts to take a hard look at what copyright is for.

From Washington Times Jun. 26, 2019

He finds a sort of redemption by roguery, and the journey is fun and joyful.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 1, 2018

He looks upon the Trojan War, and all the warriors who risk their lives in it, with a vision that strips all noble motives away and sees only lechery, roguery, and knavery.

From The New Yorker Aug. 9, 2016

It combined his characteristic psychological acumen with a bit of graphic roguery.

From New York Times Aug. 8, 2015

For a time, we were entertained by Will and John's ready store of wit and comic roguery as they engaged each other in kicking games.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

But in general their merry rogueries were highly profitable.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had chosen a kingdom in the west where he saw a "new way of measuring our jerky hopes and graceful rogueries and awkward sorrows."

From Time Magazine Archive

The trickster was the late unctuous, sniveling Daniel Drew, the cattle-watering one of the simplest and earliest of his many business rogueries.

From Time Magazine Archive

Others, lingering in Paris or Brussels to confer with their lawyer, who was busily engaged in compromising, contesting, disputing, and bullying a host of creditors, whose very rogueries had accomplished the catastrophe they grumbled at.

From Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever

The enlisting of recruits was still little organised in this early period; and the rogueries, which could not fail to accompany it, were at least unsanctioned by the highest authorities.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag




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