roguishness
- a word derived from roguish.
Example Sentences
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"Len was different to anyone else in the dancing business - he was a wonderful character, he had a roguishness about him - he had twinkle," he said in a statement online.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2023
The may exhibit a certain naivete or roguishness or even the desire to be left alone.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2022
They operated on an edge, two sides of the same coin: discipline and roguishness.
From Slate • Mar. 28, 2022
That right-brained roguishness, the linguist John McWhorter tells us, sets profanities apart from ordinary words, which are mediated by the comparatively sober left brain.
From New York Times • May 4, 2021
Yours is a butterfly nature——” “But butterfly natures are nice; aren’t they, Mr. Hepworth?” and Patty looked up at him with the roguishness that she could never quite control.
From Patty's Social Season by Wells, Carolyn
