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
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
But even after the success of “A Night to Remember” Rank decided not to support his pet project, an adaptation of “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, ”Alan Sillitoe’s harsh novel about a working-class roué.
From New York Times • Oct. 8, 2010
She had described him as an American in words which might so probably give this noble old roué a false impression as to his character.
From The Landleaguers by Trollope, Anthony
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