roguishness

Example Sentences

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"Len was different to anyone else in the dancing business - he was a wonderful character, he had a roguishness about him - he had twinkle," he said in a statement online.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2023

There were elements of that roguishness in the ’80s and the ’90s, but after 9/11, the unit’s size and its operational tempo just exploded exponentially, and just the same, its problems exploded exponentially.

From Slate • Mar. 28, 2022

That right-brained roguishness, the linguist John McWhorter tells us, sets profanities apart from ordinary words, which are mediated by the comparatively sober left brain.

From New York Times • May 4, 2021

Statham brought an affable roguishness to rollicking gangster movies, a quality he has never entirely lost; he was the glue that held the whole thing together.

From The Guardian • Jun. 8, 2017

She glanced up now into my puzzled face, a bit shyly, yet with some of the old roguishness visible in her eyes.

From When Wilderness Was King A Tale of the Illinois Country by Parrish, Randall