rogue
adjective
no longer obedient, belonging, or accepted and hence not controllable or answerable; renegade.
rogued
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past participleof rogue.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof rogue.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
rogueadjectiveno longer obedient, belonging, or accepted and hence not controllable or answerable; renegade.
Example Sentences
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“And we’ve had our fun,” he boasted, “and speaking of sweethearts and all,” he cribbed from Kipling, “‘We’ve rogued and we’ve ranged - ’” “‘In our time,’” Slim completed the crib for him.
From The Red One by Jack London
Chapman says, on reading these letters and hearing all the case, that he never heard of any man being more shamefully treated,—that I have been outrageously rogued and robbed throughout.
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Edmund Downey
You will recall that the off-type trees were rogued, leaving the parent trees of Nanking, Kuling and Meiling and others of good bearing habits.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952 by Northern Nut Growers Association
The practice enters into every hour of every-day life, and the greatest knave that ever rogued never cheated the world half as often as he cheated himself!
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever
Does he think I will see Squire Rawdon rogued out of his home?
From The Man Between, an International Romance by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
