roue
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In his private life he is a drab roue, and his public life is just as futile.
From Time Magazine Archive
The complication which besets all love is, in this case, the roue Duke of Venice.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like an aging roue looking back on halcyon days, the House Un-American Activities Committee has tried to sanitize its image.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Rumania the sanctity of the orthodox patriarch of the National Church, His Holiness Miron Cristea, is not held to be impaired by his national reputation as a onetime roue.
From Time Magazine Archive
No doubt the Robichaux roue was thus attracted to them.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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
None of this has prepared him to play a pre-revolutionary roué, he said.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 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
I am not going to have you turn out a roué like your wicked Major.
From A Double Knot by George Manville Fenn
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