Yet roguery can be a power for good: when the public interest demands, British hacks burn bridges and attack with rare vigour.
He exhibited a similar vigour in such prose pamphlets as The Wonderfull Yeare (1603), about the plague; The Belman of London (1608), about roguery and crime, with much material borrowed from Robert Greene and others; and The Guls Horne-Booke (1609), a valuable account of behaviour in the London theatres.
These two lacerating family dramas were neatly counterpointed by a boisterous Gate Theatre revival of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's satiric epic of sleaze and roguery, The Threepenny Opera.
At one extreme there was the picaresque novel, with its implicit satire of a society in which one could make one's way by cleverness and roguery rather than by honest work that is, if one did not happen to be born a nobleman.
There is an abstractedness in learning – when we learn because learning itself absorbs us, not because we have an eye on a good job in the City or the media – that is a million miles away from the self-pleasing, time-consuming roguery of laddishness.
But the term has come to connote as much the episodic nature of the original species as the dynamic of roguery.
Her small devices for thrift giving her a sense of roguery.
Though Mr. Pallana's roles were typically small, his screen presence was anything but: his lines, delivered in understated Indian-inflected tones, crackled with cantankerous roguery.
These things are popular, they're talkable, they're full of horse sense and roguery".
The Creek, as it is known, still drips with the roguery of its champion Malcolm Hardee.
But you don't need a barrister's wig to see that pre-planned roguery away from the field of play belongs in a separate category to spontaneous chiselling that falls under the jurisdiction of the referee.
