rogues

Example Sentences

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For years, these rogues dominated the president’s daily intelligence brief.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Nancy Dunnachie, 65, the widow of a former Morton's Rolls employee tells BBC Scotland: "He kept going on about how they were a 'shower of rogues'."

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2025

“One of the peculiarities of squares is their screwy propensity to glorify rogues and scoundrels.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2024

The reverence I had unwittingly infiltrated a culture of rogues & thieves posing as police.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2023

The mother declared we should none of us leave, that she would not stir upon the river with such rogues as we; that none of us should use the boat.

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