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roguish

/ˈɹəʊɡɪʃ/US/ˈɹoʊɡɪʃ/

roguish adjective: unprincipled or unscrupulous.

Adjective

roguish (comparative more roguish, superlative most roguish)

  1. Unprincipled or unscrupulous.
  2. (idiomatic) Mischievous and playful.
    • "She'll be a match for poor little Cupid, with his tiny bow and arrow, I dare say," said Grace Fitzgerald, with a roguish eye.1840, The Novel Newspaper, volume 2, page 8
    • Hortense, with her rich chestnut locks so luxuriantly knotted, plaited, twisted, as if she did not know how to dispose of all their abundance, with her vermillion lips, damask cheek, and roguish laughing eye.a. 1856 (date written), Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XI, in A[rthur] B[ell] Nicholls, editor, The Professor, a Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], published...
    Synonyms:
    roguey

roguish meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Sanskrit

roguish in Tamil

துடி, கயமைத்தனம்

roguish in Urdu

بدمعاش

roguish in Malayalam

കളളമായ, വികൃതിത്തരമായ, തെമ്മാടിയായ, വഞ്ചകനായ

roguish in Sanskrit

roguish, hostile
छित्त्वर chittvara

Synonyms of roguish

Forms of roguish

comparativemore roguish
superlativemost roguish
alternative formrogueish

Origin of roguish

From rogue + -ish.

Words formed from roguish

Words that rhyme with roguish

Questions about roguish

What does roguish mean?
Roguish means unprincipled or unscrupulous.
What is roguish in Tamil?
Roguish in Tamil is துடி, கயமைத்தனம். See Roguish meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is roguish?
Roguish is an adjective.
How do you pronounce roguish?
Roguish is pronounced /ˈɹəʊɡɪʃ/ (UK).

Words near roguish in the dictionary

  1. rogueships
  2. roguey
  3. roguier
  4. roguiest
  5. roguing
  6. roguish
  7. roguishly
  8. roguishness
  9. roguishnesses
  10. roguy
  11. ROH

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Adapted from Wiktionary: roguish (page history and authors); roguish (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); roguish (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); roguish (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); छित्त्वर (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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