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单词 roguery
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Definition of roguery in English:

roguery

nounPlural rogueries ˈrəʊɡ(ə)riˈroʊɡəri
mass noun
  • Conduct characteristic of a rogue, especially acts of dishonesty or playful mischief.

    无赖行为,流氓行为;欺诈;恶作剧;捣蛋

    there has always been roguery associated with horse dealing

    马的交易总是和欺诈有联系。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Writers in the early 1900s noted their ‘cruelty’ and their innate roguery.
    • Poor Relief was introduced for the deserving poor, while at the same time for the rogues it was whipping and, if they continued in their roguery, death for felony.
    • You see, part of the immense appeal of the film to me as a child was the sheer roguery of its anti-hero.
    • Now, he was faced with their roguery that was reaching a fever pitch, under the guise of divine influence.
    • The rogueries of Autolycus, the pedlar, add amusement to the later scenes of the play.
    • Anyway, given the casualties on all sides, if a bit of roguery here and there left some innocent dead around, well that's the way wars are fought.
    • His wife still admired him, though; she who had once been so fine, his perfect twin except for a slight turn in the toe that had seemed to him a coquettish bit of roguery.
    • Any compromise with this scourge of majoritarian roguery, or any delay in quashing and quelling it out of existence, would only destroy democracy.
    • I just love a guy with the bit of roguery about him.
    • This of course smacks of last minute pre-election roguery.
    • The same goes for the long list of rogueries - or ‘concerns’ in the State Department's new lingo-lite - with which this country has pestered the planet for many years.
    • But Folds brings so much blithe roguery - not to mention buckets of both volume and velocity - to bear here, you can practically see the glint in his eye.
    • Who can quarrel with a performance so vibrant with venal roguery and sheepish love?
    • Naturally, these unfortunate other nations don't have the same prerogative to invade us and change our government if they determine us to be guilty of roguery.
    • These occasions afforded such scope for roguery that their popularity was gradually reduced.
    Synonyms
    evil-doing, evil, evilness, sin, sinfulness, iniquity, iniquitousness, vileness, foulness, baseness, badness, wrong, wrongdoing, dishonesty, double-dealing, unscrupulousness, villainy, rascality, delinquency, viciousness, degeneracy, depravity, dissolution, dissipation, immorality, vice, perversion, pervertedness, corruption, corruptness, turpitude, devilry, devilishness, fiendishness

Definition of roguery in US English:

roguery

nounˈroʊɡəriˈrōɡərē
  • Conduct characteristic of a rogue, especially acts of dishonesty or playful mischief.

    无赖行为,流氓行为;欺诈;恶作剧;捣蛋

    there has always been roguery associated with horse dealing

    马的交易总是和欺诈有联系。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • These occasions afforded such scope for roguery that their popularity was gradually reduced.
    • Poor Relief was introduced for the deserving poor, while at the same time for the rogues it was whipping and, if they continued in their roguery, death for felony.
    • I just love a guy with the bit of roguery about him.
    • You see, part of the immense appeal of the film to me as a child was the sheer roguery of its anti-hero.
    • Writers in the early 1900s noted their ‘cruelty’ and their innate roguery.
    • Anyway, given the casualties on all sides, if a bit of roguery here and there left some innocent dead around, well that's the way wars are fought.
    • But Folds brings so much blithe roguery - not to mention buckets of both volume and velocity - to bear here, you can practically see the glint in his eye.
    • Now, he was faced with their roguery that was reaching a fever pitch, under the guise of divine influence.
    • Naturally, these unfortunate other nations don't have the same prerogative to invade us and change our government if they determine us to be guilty of roguery.
    • This of course smacks of last minute pre-election roguery.
    • The rogueries of Autolycus, the pedlar, add amusement to the later scenes of the play.
    • Who can quarrel with a performance so vibrant with venal roguery and sheepish love?
    • Any compromise with this scourge of majoritarian roguery, or any delay in quashing and quelling it out of existence, would only destroy democracy.
    • His wife still admired him, though; she who had once been so fine, his perfect twin except for a slight turn in the toe that had seemed to him a coquettish bit of roguery.
    • The same goes for the long list of rogueries - or ‘concerns’ in the State Department's new lingo-lite - with which this country has pestered the planet for many years.
    Synonyms
    evil-doing, evil, evilness, sin, sinfulness, iniquity, iniquitousness, vileness, foulness, baseness, badness, wrong, wrongdoing, dishonesty, double-dealing, unscrupulousness, villainy, rascality, delinquency, viciousness, degeneracy, depravity, dissolution, dissipation, immorality, vice, perversion, pervertedness, corruption, corruptness, turpitude, devilry, devilishness, fiendishness
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