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roguery
noun as in mischief
Strong matches
- atrocity
- catastrophe
- devilment
- devilry
- deviltry
- evil
- fault
- friskiness
- frolicsomeness
- gag
- harm
- hurt
- ill
- impishness
- injury
- misbehavior
- mischievousness
- misconduct
- misfortune
- naughtiness
- outrage
- playfulness
- prank
- prankishness
- rascality
- roguishness
- sabotage
- shenanigans
- sportiveness
- tomfoolery
- transgression
- vandalism
- waggery
- waggishness
- wrong
- wrongdoing
Example Sentences
The booming market in antiquities also begat a booming market in forgeries — “an intolerable bit of shuffling and roguery in the Jerusalem game of the ‘curios,’” as The New York Times put it in 1874.
“The era of roguery is over. Now it’s the people who are in power. Everyone in Brazil must understand that they must yield to the will of the Brazilian people.”
“The era of roguery is over. Now it’s the people who are in power,” Bolsonaro proclaimed outside the Brazilian army headquarters, coughing repeatedly as he spoke.
Michael Reid, the author of Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America’s Soul, saw three key catalysts: the economic discontent of an emerging middle class, fury over political roguery and the influence of other global protest movements shaking cities from Paris and Barcelona to Hong Kong.
Trump smiled, and the dinner guests laughed at the sole acknowledgment of presidential roguery on this otherwise traditional night.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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