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roguish

adj
/ˈɹəʊɡɪʃ/UK/ˈɹoʊɡɪʃ/US

Etymology

From rogue + -ish.

  1. derived from hrokr — “excess, exuberance”
  2. derived from rogre — “aggressive”
  3. derived from rogue — “arrogant, haughty”
  4. derived from rogō — “to ask”
  5. suffixed as roguish — “rogue + ish”

Definitions

  1. Unprincipled or unscrupulous.

  2. 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.
    • 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.
    • Back at the sauna, Mr. Pylhhänen gives a roguish grin and says he has found the answer to the “happiest country” debate – in a very Finnish way, of course.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for roguish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA