Adjective : a roguish smile. From Dictionary.com.
Roguish enough for those matters requiring roguishness. From Wordnik.com. [Genre Chick Interview: Geoffrey Girard] Reference
Yet, he offered a smile that held a hint of roguishness. From Wordnik.com. [Darksong Rising]
There was a wonderful gaiety and a touch of roguishness in her beaming eyes. From Wordnik.com. [A Raw Youth] Reference
He behaved to her with a hint of roguishness, she to him with easy response. From Wordnik.com. [Longshot]
It was the spirits and the intelligence, combined with inordinate roguishness, that made him what he was. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XI] Reference
A plan to take revenge on the Reverend succeeds in ruining him, and Douglas begins to repent of his roguishness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
He turned upon his heel hastily; she stood before him smiling, her eyes overflowing with roguishness and affection. From Wordnik.com. [Bel Ami] Reference
In this season where Going Rogue is either going vogue for some or going bogus for others, try a little roguishness yourself. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Judith Rich: Have Yourself A Merry Little Chrismahanukwanzaadan] Reference
And suddenly in the eyes dawned a smile — sweet, friendly, a touch of roguishness, profoundly reassuring in its all humanness. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Pool] Reference
For a moment, his roguishness rekindled and he pulled her close, swung her easily off her feet even though she was as tall as he. From Wordnik.com. [The Irda]
As he rode along, learning the good nature, the roguishness and the dependableness of the animal, Graham hummed the words of the Gypsy. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER XXI] Reference
There were ornate crimson curtains, filmy cream inner curtains, a suspicion of lace, an air of Edwardian roguishness brought up to date. From Wordnik.com. [Hot Money]
The roguishness of his author photos turned out -- in person -- to mean a fondness for torn T-shirts and no love for shaving his long jaw. From Wordnik.com. [Lapham's Quarterly: David Foster Wallace, R.I.P.] Reference
I believe he intended to express a respectful roguishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Guest of Quesnay] Reference
Beneath Ben's bonhomie and roguishness there was much shyness. From Wordnik.com. [One Basket] Reference
I have seldom taken up a part with so much zeal and roguishness. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter VI. Book V] Reference
Again the boy flushed, but there was roguishness in his brown eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Corner House Girls at School] Reference
She is divinely innocent, but roguishness saves her from insipidity. From Wordnik.com. [A Cathedral Courtship] Reference
ROSALIND: (With a faint roguishness) Don't look so consciously suffering. From Wordnik.com. [This Side of Paradise] Reference
Like a vast lyre, the Hall vibrated to the faintest breath of roguishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes] Reference
She does her best, but Prince, bubbling over with roguishness, lags behind. From Wordnik.com. [A Collection of Stories] Reference
And with an amiable roguishness Elizabeth kissed the tips of Anna's fingers. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughter of an Empress] Reference
He looked down into her upturned face, fascinating now from a touch of roguishness. From Wordnik.com. [Winding Paths] Reference
They were singularly lovely eyes -- retaining something of their girlish roguishness. From Wordnik.com. [Otherwise Phyllis] Reference
Despite he was in wild spirits, despite her roguishness, for a space they did not speak. From Wordnik.com. [Once Aboard the Lugger] Reference
He will now and again, screwing up his courage by a tremendous effort, plunge into roguishness. From Wordnik.com. [Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow] Reference
It was between dances as they entered, and Muriel Kane looked up with roguishness extraordinary. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
As he rode along, learning the good nature, the roguishness and the dependableness of the animal. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Lady of the Big House] Reference
As he grew older the seriousness crept up and up and almost entirely obliterated the roguishness. From Wordnik.com. [Half Portions] Reference
As he grew older, the seriousness crept up and up and almost entirely obliterated the roguishness. From Wordnik.com. [One Basket] Reference
Nevertheless, she managed to put a great deal of winsomeness and roguishness into the rôle of the cherub. From Wordnik.com. [Gänsemännchen. English] Reference
And Bertha, smiling now without a touch of roguishness, smiling in the mere joy of her heart, laid a hand in his. From Wordnik.com. [Will Warburton] Reference
Sometimes one had arched while the other remained quiet; this gave a winsome look of brightness and roguishness to her face. From Wordnik.com. [Wayside Courtships] Reference
And suddenly in the eyes dawned a smile -- sweet, friendly, a touch of roguishness, profoundly reassuring in its all humanness. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Pool] Reference
At last, with mysterious roguishness, he inquired what it contained, and on being answered, shook his head with kindly incredulity. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25)] Reference
"I don't see any one looking," she said, and her eyes took on a pathetic suggestion of the roguishness her face must have worn in girlhood. From Wordnik.com. [A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West] Reference
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