ROGUERY


Meaning of ROGUERY in English

ˈrōgərē, -əri noun

( -es )

1. : the practices or conduct of a rogue

more often the victim than the practitioner of roguery — S.T.Williamson

2. : the act characteristic of a rogue

dismissed … for unspecified rogueries — Wolcott Gibbs

3. : mischievous play

little wretches … stealing back through the shrubbery so as not to be seen all bedraggled from some roguery — Virginia Woolf

4. : the world of rogues

a thing at which all roguery rejoiced — Walter Besant

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