The word 'roguish' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone with mischievous or cheeky behavior. Example: "The little boy was so roguish - he always came home from school with his pockets filled with candy!".
Miami Vice (2006) Foxx reunited with Mann for a lush big-screen treatment of the 80s TV show about two roguish cops patrolling the art-deco seafront.
The battle of the titans gives way to a comedy of lopsidedness: the thug is oafish, the referee is neat and pallid; the thug is a roguish crowd-charmer, the referee a timid creature of the rule book.
To the government particularly the president Mr Karzai was the indispensable key to control of the south.In this section An expensive gamble Terror, again A roguish operator In a sulk A question of trust Taken to the cleaners ReprintsPresident Karzai is likely to feel his death keenly, for political as well as personal reasons.
Men may believe their swirling, ornate body engravings reflect a roguish masculinity.
And although space-based lasers are still many years away, the intermittent research of the past two decades seems likely to continue.What is more, even if Mr Bush stays true to his word trying to block the still-limited threat from roguish regimes, rather than the strategic deterrent forces of either Russia or China the ABM treaty, at least in its present form, is for the scrap-heap.
A FAMILIAR face appeared in many of the protests taking place in scores of cities on three continents this week: a Guy Fawkes mask with a roguish smile and a pencil-thin moustache.
Andrew Mellon had been persuaded to buy them by Joseph Duveen, a roguish dealer who had traded on the simple fact that America had a lot of money and Europe a lot of art.
At 5am, they get up for mass.Moustached, tattooed, scarred and shaven-headed, some look as roguish as any bandido.
It was clear who these remarks were aimed at.The day before, Indonesia's foreign minister, Hassan Wirayuda, said ASEAN leaders had told Myanmar, at a summit in July, not to expect any help if America got its way and took the country to the United Nations Security Council over its roguish behaviour, including its human-rights abuses and its failure to democratise.
His roguish side only added to his appeal.
ONE of the more unlikely case studies offered by Harvard Business School describes the turnaround of Indian Railways under Lalu Prasad Yadav, a shrewd, roguish politician who ruled Bihar, India's most depressed and unruly state, for 15 years.
