He was a tall boy, with curly brown hair, roguish hazel eyes, and a mouth twisted into a teasing smile.
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Roguish
//ˈɹəʊɡɪʃ//
Synonyms for "roguish" (61 found)
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13 translations across 6 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- πανοῦργος adj (unprincipled or unscrupulous)
Bulgarian
3 entries- дяволит adj (mischievous and playful)
- закачлив adj (mischievous and playful)
- мошенически adj (unprincipled or unscrupulous)
German
4 entries- gewissenlos adj (unprincipled or unscrupulous)
- schalkhaft adj (mischievous and playful)
- schurkisch adj (unprincipled or unscrupulous)
- skrupellos adj (unprincipled or unscrupulous)
Irish
1 entries- rógánta adj (unprincipled or unscrupulous)
Māori
1 entries- porohīanga adj (mischievous and playful)
Swedish
1 entries- skälmsk adj (mischievous and playful)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
A jingle of tinkling bells mingled with the squeak of a viola; the guffaws of a rompish company blended with the tuneless chanting of discordant minstrels, and the gray parrot in its golden cage, suspended from one of the oaken beams of the ceiling, shook its feathers for the twentieth time and screamed vindictively at the roguish band.
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"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.
Source: wiktionary
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.
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