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ROGUE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
Synonyms:
knave; rapscallion; rascal; rogue; scalawag; scallywag; varlet
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("rogue" is a kind of...):
scoundrel; villain (a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately)
Context examples:
What inhuman rogues there are in the world!
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"You rogue! You traitor! Jo, how could you?" cried the three girls, as Snodgrass led her friend triumphantly forth, and producing both a chair and a badge, installed him in a jiffy.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It is always possible that she never reached London, or that she has passed through it, but the former is improbable, as, with their system of registration, it is not easy for foreigners to play tricks with the Continental police; and the latter is also unlikely, as these rogues could not hope to find any other place where it would be as easy to keep a person under restraint.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the week.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Time has changed me more than it has changed you since then, said I. But let these dear rogues go to bed; and as no house in England but this must hold you, tell me where to send for your luggage (is the old black bag among it, that went so far, I wonder!), and then, over a glass of Yarmouth grog, we will have the tidings of ten years!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
But this species, Olea hensoni, has gone rogue, joining two other sacoglossan species – Olea hansineensis in the northeast Pacific Ocean and Calliopaea bellula in the Mediterranean Sea – that abandoned a diet of seaweed to prey on the eggs of their fellow slugs and snails.
(New sea slug species discovered near condominiums of Florida’s Cedar Key, National Science Foundation)
Solomon his wisdom would not suffice to say what the rogue means.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“I'll show these rogues that I'm an honest woman,” said my mother.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Then the wolf was very angry, and called Sultan “an old rogue,” and swore he would have his revenge.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
But in the interval the rogue had learned to imitate you, and his position was therefore secure, as I presume that nobody in the office had ever set eyes upon you.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
