rogueries
- plural of roguery.
Example Sentences
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He had chosen a kingdom in the west where he saw a "new way of measuring our jerky hopes and graceful rogueries and awkward sorrows."
From Time Magazine Archive
But in general their merry rogueries were highly profitable.
From Time Magazine Archive
The trickster was the late unctuous, sniveling Daniel Drew, the cattle-watering one of the simplest and earliest of his many business rogueries.
From Time Magazine Archive
The valet of Comedy had become a rascally steward whose rogueries took on a certain aspect of Drama.
From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Filon, Augustin
Avoid my presence, monster of nature, treasury of lies, magazine of deceits, storehouse of rogueries, inventor of mischiefs, publisher of absurdities, and foe to all the honour due to royalty!
From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
