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noun

Roguery n.

The life of a vargant. (Obs.)

The practices of a rogue; knavish tricks; cheating; fraud; dishonest practices. "'Tis no scandal grown, For debt and roguery to quit the town."

Arch tricks; mischievousness.

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Etymology of 'Roguery'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Roguery" Quotes from Famous Books

... charged him three shillings and sixpence per letter, and conducted the business with a fine legal delay. But it was not till Kazelia was eulogized by one of these gentry as a very fine man that both the model and I grew suspicious that the long chain of roguery reached even unto London, and that the confederates on this side were playing for time, so that the option should expire, and the railway sell the unredeemed luggage, which they would doubtless buy in cheap, making ...

— Ghetto Comedies • Israel Zangwill

... of Brull went down and down, but its prestige rose higher and higher. The sacks of money filled by the old man at the cost of so much roguery were shaken empty over all the District; nor were several assaults upon the municipal treasury sufficient to bring them back to normal roundness. Don Ramon contemplated this squandering impassively, proud that people ...

— The Torrent - Entre Naranjos • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... are you there, Mistress? what have you now To say for your last Night's Roguery? Are not ...

— The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume IV. • Aphra Behn

... modern cockneyism, Liberalism, and progress, of all things that remind them of the noble dead, of their fathers' fame, or of their own duty; and the public road becomes their idol, instead of the saint's shrine. Finally, the roguery of the entire transaction—the mean man seeing the weakness of the honorable, and "besting" him—in modern slang, in the manner and at the pace of modern trade—"on the pressure ...

— On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) - A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature • John Ruskin

... bullet-shape to his head. Taken altogether, his physiognomy resembled one of those vagabond heads which Murillo delighted to paint, and for which Guzman d'Alfarache, Lazarillo de Tormes, or Estevanillo Gonzalez might have sat:—faces that almost make one in love with roguery, they seem so full of vivacity and enjoyment. There was all the knavery, and more than all the drollery of a Spanish picaroon in the laughing eyes of the English apprentice; and, with a little more warmth and sunniness of ...

— Jack Sheppard - A Romance • William Harrison Ainsworth

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