roguery
Americannoun
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roguish conduct; rascality.
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playful mischief.
noun
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behaviour characteristic of a rogue
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a roguish or mischievous act
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Origin of roguery
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But if publishing building safety standards online is an act of roguery, it is time for the courts to take a hard look at what copyright is for.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 26, 2019
The roguery and raillery are in place, and he has a pleasing way with a song, but his instincts for clowning undermine his suavity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2019
He looks upon the Trojan War, and all the warriors who risk their lives in it, with a vision that strips all noble motives away and sees only lechery, roguery, and knavery.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 9, 2016
It combined his characteristic psychological acumen with a bit of graphic roguery.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2015
For a time, we were entertained by Will and John's ready store of wit and comic roguery as they engaged each other in kicking games.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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 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
It is the more singular, since this man is a specialty—an actual personification of some of the very subtlest rogueries of the age we live in!
From Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General by Lever, Charles James
Many a usurer there is that can spare no time in the week to reckon up his rogueries, that can sit in church of a Sunday and devise how to practise fresh villainies.
From The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Grimmelshausen, Hans Jacob Christoph von
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