roguery
noun
roguish conduct; rascality.
rogueries
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pluralof roguery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
But in general their merry rogueries were highly profitable.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The glorious picture of a race-course, with all its attendant rogueries, betting-stands crammed with "fats," a ring crowded with "green-horns," was a tableau of which he never wearied.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever
Of course, those rogueries made him very wealthy, and when Madame Marie was in need of money, her treasurer came to her aid.
From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Bartholomew Sastrow
