roue
Example Sentences
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Interrupting his trial, the jazzy “Come Up to My Office” imagines Frank wholly out of character as a suave roué.
From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2023
Cohen’s persona in this middle passage was as a dapper roué, captured by the title of 1977’s Death of A Ladies’ Man, for which Elrod took the cover shot.
From The Guardian • Nov. 13, 2016
Dire moves to curtail Pyros’s activity may be unnecessary, some specialists say, because there are signs the shaggy roué has lost a step.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2016
A libertine history and the look of a roué gone to seed would not in themselves preclude the support of evangelical Christians, who are, after all, keen on repentance.
From Economist • Mar. 3, 2016
Mr. Clarkson, a wealthy American man of business, a Californian, has just received a note from the Duke of Septmonts, a blasé young roué of high family, requesting him to call at once.
From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various
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