A roguish grin. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a roguish smile. From Dictionary.com.
Satyrs are described as roguish but faint-hearted folk — subversive and dangerous, yet shy and cowardly. From Wordnik.com. [Pan and Satyrs] Reference
And there was, strangely enough, what Craddock could only describe as a roguish twinkle in her faded blue eyes. From Wordnik.com. [A Murder Is Announced]
Only one nation above all others is a threat to world security and peace, and that nation is the most "roguish" of all. From Wordnik.com. [Comments on Helen Caldicott's New Book Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer] Reference
Who mated out with thee in roguish play. From Wordnik.com. [Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. II. I. Southern Passages and Pictures; II. Historical and Dramatic Sketches; III. Scripture Legends; IV. Francesca Da Rimini] Reference
"Isn't it a kind of roguish, chaffing bird, brother?". From Wordnik.com. [The Romany Rye] Reference
'Isn't it a kind of roguish, chaffing bird, brother?'. From Wordnik.com. [The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro'] Reference
Chandos image, whether realistic or not, portrays more of what others have called a "roguish" image. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare Geek] Reference
But on the other hand, he's got this roguish charm. From Wordnik.com. [Remember Bear Stearns?] Reference
On the contrary, she looked at him with a roguish eye. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
She looked up suddenly at her husband with roguish eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
She shot a roguish glance at her broadly-smiling spouse. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Problem] Reference
The only answer the princess returned was a roguish look. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference
"I fancy I know why," laughed Alice, with a roguish glance at her sister. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Girls at Rocky Ranch Or, Great Days Among the Cowboys] Reference
She looked back, and I saw a roguish Romney eye lighting a charming profile. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
With a roguish look at their fat old mother, he began to scamper off with her. From Wordnik.com. [Dick and His Cat and Other Tales] Reference
I like his spirit, though all I know of it is what sparkles from his roguish eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
The people there are much like ourselves, only they are very, very small and roguish. From Wordnik.com. [The Goblins' Christmas] Reference
Salina was taken unawares by some who had no roguish black eyed lady-loves laughing behind them. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
Johnnie alone was silent; but his dimples were all in play, and he had never looked more roguish. From Wordnik.com. [Holiday Tales] Reference
Hohleweg, many simple and not a few pretty faces with roguish eyes do we see at the open windows. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
In baseball stealing signals has always been considered a part of the game, with a certain roguish charm. From Wordnik.com. [NFL Spy Games] Reference
A protege of Louisiana's roguish former governor, Edwin Edwards, Breaux is now the state's most popular pol. From Wordnik.com. [The Cool Cajun To See] Reference
Now, with us you may find many individual rogues, but never a roguish court, nor tolerated roguish public body. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
The old fellow had a roguish twinkle in his gray eye as, pointing to the piles of blankets and pillows, he said. From Wordnik.com. [Jerry's Reward] Reference
At first glance she seemed abashed, but he noticed that the corners of her mouth were tucked up in a roguish laugh. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasure] Reference
Madama did not get up; no one did; so Angioletto had to step gingerly into a ring of roguish women to deliver his letter. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
Finally she turned to her companion, and with a roguish smile, which shone like a sunbeam out from overhanging curls, said. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives] Reference
“I told you how it would be,” said he, addressing a sly, roguish-looking youngster, who had persuaded him to put it in. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
All the children gathered around him, sturdy Gilbert and rosy Jocelyn, roguish Giles and slender Rosalind, eager for a story. From Wordnik.com. [The Story-teller] Reference
"And I'll bet you've got something nice under that napkin, too," Peace hazarded, her eyes dancing with their old roguish gleam. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Gold] Reference
The sadness in her eyes gave way to mirth and a twinkle of fun; the color came faster, the lips broke into a most roguish smile. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
Besides this there are a roguish song by a goose-girl, a very pretty valse rondo, and last but not least many fine Hungarian songs. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Tom Brown tells us of a roguish boy who said to a traveller, warming his feet at a fire: 'Take care, sir, or you'll burn your spurs!'. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Tristram, a “whimsical and roguish novel which would in our land be but little credit to a clergyman,” and with the hobby-horse idea. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
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