ROGUE in a Sentence

Learn ROGUE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

30 example sentences for ROGUE, such as:

1. Mr Ward wasn't a rogue at all.
2. But of course he is a terrible rogue.
3. She wasn't a rogue, she told herself vehemently.
4. You know as well as I do that the man is a rogue.
5. Other wrangle with little round head rogue's eye Ghezzi.

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rogue
 n.  a deceitful and unreliable person; a dishonest or worthless person
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  But of course he is a terrible rogue.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
2  Very different that from the ways of a rogue, whom one can never satisfy, however much one may give him.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
3  Evidently he was of opinion that, since the gentry declined to receive the visitor, the latter must certainly be a rogue.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER X
4  In short, gradually the barin realised that, in spite of favours conferred, the peasants were playing the rogue with him.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
5  Our "romantic" is a man of great breadth and the greatest rogue of all our rogues, I assure you.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
6  Yes, it is only among us that the most incorrigible rogue can be absolutely and loftily honest at heart without in the least ceasing to be a rogue.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
7  She wasn't a rogue, she told herself vehemently.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
8  Maybe I am a rogue, but I won't be a rogue forever, Rhett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
9  You know as well as I do that the man is a rogue.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
10  He went and came, sang, played at hopscotch, scraped the gutters, stole a little, but, like cats and sparrows, gayly laughed when he was called a rogue, and got angry when called a thief.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GAVROCHE
11  An observing urchin and a rogue, he made a potpourri of the voices of nature and the voices of Paris.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER I—SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF ...
12  A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 25 PORTHOS
13  Other wrangle with little round head rogue's eye Ghezzi.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
14  Doolittle: either you're an honest man or a rogue.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
15  Then the wolf was very angry, and called Sultan 'an old rogue,' and swore he would have his revenge.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In OLD SULTAN
Example Sentence:
1  The rogue blew upon the scheme and so betrayed his partner to the police.
2  Mr Ward wasn't a rogue at all.
3  The rogue blew on the scheme and so betrayed his partner to the police.
4  The confirmation wouldn't mean "women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids."
5  He and others in the rogues' gallery of international terrorists may be running out of time.