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
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
We have no use for Lupin, except when his rogueries are perpetrated at the expense of shady company-promoters, foreign adventurers, German barons, banks and financial companies.
From The Confessions of Arsène Lupin by Maurice Leblanc
The enlisting of recruits was still little organised in this early period; and the rogueries, which could not fail to accompany it, were at least unsanctioned by the highest authorities.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag
