Word Meanings - ROGUISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Vagrant. Spenser. His roguish madness Allows itself to anything. Shak. 2. Resembling, or characteristic of, a rogue; knavish. 3. Pleasantly mischievous; waggish; arch. The most bewitching leer with her eyes, the most roguish cast. Dryden.

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1. Vagrant. Spenser. His roguish madness Allows itself to anything. Shak. 2. Resembling, or characteristic of, a rogue; knavish. 3. Pleasantly mischievous; waggish; arch. The most bewitching leer with her eyes, the most roguish cast. Dryden. -- Rogu"ish*ly, adv. -- Rogu"ish*ness, n.

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• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• KNAVISHNESS
  The quality or state of being knavish; knavery; dishonesty.
• VAGRANTNESS
  State of being vagrant; vagrancy.
• BEWITCHING
  Having power to bewitch or fascinate; enchanting; captivating; charming. -- Be*witch"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*witch"ing*ness, n.
• ROGUERY
  1. The life of a vargant. 2. The practices of a rogue; knavish tricks; cheating; fraud; dishonest practices. 'Tis no scandal grown, For debt and roguery to quit the town. Dryden. 3. Arch tricks; mischievousness.
• BEWITCHERY
  The power of bewitching or fascinating; bewitchment; charm; fascination. There is a certain bewitchery or fascination in words. South.
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• KNAVISH
  1. Like or characteristic of a knave; given to knavery; trickish; fraudulent; dishonest; villainous; as, a knavish fellow, or a knavish trick. "Knavish politicians." Macaulay. 2. Mischievous; roguish; waggish. Cupid is knavish lad, Thus to make
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• ROGUE
  A vagrant; an idle, sturdy beggar; a vagabond; a tramp. Note: The phrase rogues and vagabonds is applied to a large class of wandering, disorderly, or dissolute persons. They were formerly punished by being whipped and having the gristle of the
• ROGUESHIP
  The quality or state of being a rogue. "Your rogueship." Dryden.
• KNAVISHLY
  1. In a knavish manner; dishonestly; fraudulently. Holland. 2. Mischievously; waggishly; roguishly. "Knavishly witty." Gayton.
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• VAGRANTLY
  In a vagrant manner.
• BEWITCHEDNESS
  The state of being bewitched. Gauden.
• WAGGISH
  1. Like a wag; mischievous in sport; roguish in merriment or good humor; frolicsome. "A company of waggish boys." L'Estrange. 2. Done, made, or laid in waggery or for sport; sportive; humorous; as, a waggish trick. -- Wag"gish*ly, adv.
• ROGUISH
  1. Vagrant. Spenser. His roguish madness Allows itself to anything. Shak. 2. Resembling, or characteristic of, a rogue; knavish. 3. Pleasantly mischievous; waggish; arch. The most bewitching leer with her eyes, the most roguish cast. Dryden.
• VAGRANT
  waucrer, wacrer, walcrer, to wander , but influenced by F. vagant, p. pr. of vaguer to stray, L. vagari. 1. Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled. That beauteous Emma vagrant courses took. Prior. While leading
• BEWITCHMENT
  1. The act of bewitching, or the state of being bewitched. Tylor. 2. The power of bewitching or charming. Shak.
• MISCHIEVOUS
  Causing mischief; harmful; hurtful; -- now often applied where the evil is done carelessly or in sport; as, a mischievous child. "Most mischievous foul sin." Shak. This false, wily, doubling disposition is intolerably mischievous to society. South.
• SCAPEGALLOWS
  One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes. Dickens.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• BROGUES
  Breeches. Shenstone.
• GALLOWS
  The rest for the tympan when raised. 4. pl. (more info) AS. galga, gealga, gallows, cross; akin to D. galg gallows, OS. & OHG. galgo, G. galgen, Icel. galgi, Sw. & Dan. galge, Goth. galga a cross. Etymologically and historically considered, gallows
• ALLHALLOW; ALLHALLOWS
  1. All the saints . 2. All Saints' Day, November 1st.