'roguishness' is a correct word and can be used in written English.
It is a noun that describes the quality of being deceitful, mischievous, or dishonest. Example: The young man's charming smile and roguishness often fooled people into trusting him, but he was actually a skilled con artist.
For many, he embodies the greed, roguishness and deceit that caused the financial system to implode in 2008.
To hear Nazarian tell it, his life has followed a more or less predictable pattern: voluble roguishness leading to mishap, which turns unaccountably into success.
Clooney, Parker writes, "is the fellow at the end of the bar, who, on a scale running from Jimmy Stewart to Jack Nicholson, has found an enviable midpoint of courteous roguishness".
Cary Grant once advised a young actor who hoped to emulate him to wear silk underwear; Clooney's appeal is less sleek and submerged — he is the fellow at the end of the bar, who, on a scale running from James Stewart to Jack Nicholson, has found an enviable midpoint of courteous roguishness.
Jo's bright eyes became shaded with roguishness and complicity.
About their influence, and about casual gay sex, he would write,: "It's this lawlessness and anonymity simultaneously that I desire, living among thugs, but men who live under no degree of law or demand, just continual motion and robbery and light roguishness and motion".
The mouth is puckered into a disapproving slit when Miss Prism is in pedagogical mode, but a hint of roguishness softens her businesslike demeanor when she is in the presence of the gallant Rev. Canon Chasuble.
Lucinda dons grey silk bloomers to proclaim her feminist sympathies; Oscar's friend Wardley-Fish is a trainee clergyman aspiring to roguishness in "a loud hound's-tooth jacket with a handkerchief like a fistful of daffodils rammed into a rumpled vase".
Abandoning swagger and roguishness, knee-deep in perdition and redemption as the tortured protagonist Raskolnikov, it's a truly startling, genuinely mature performance.
The roguishness of Charles Haughey, the three-time prime minister who died earlier this year, was a central part of his appeal.
He always had that ability, that roguishness.
