roguish
adjective
playfully mischievous.
roguishness
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a word derived from
roguish.
Example Sentences
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Known for its sporty cars that to many represented a suave, English roguishness, Jaguar has been in a sales slump for the better part of the past decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
"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
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
She glanced up now into my puzzled face, a bit shyly, yet with some of the old roguishness visible in her eyes.
From When Wilderness Was King A Tale of the Illinois Country by Randall Parrish
