roue
Example Sentences
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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
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
Paul Lukas, the only actor in Hollywood who can speak with a foreign accent without seeming to be a roue, handles the situation with delicacy.
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
No doubt the Robichaux roue was thus attracted to them.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Vocabulary lists containing roue
