roguishlyadv.
/ˈrəʊɡᵻʃli/, U.S. /ˈroʊɡᵻʃli/ In a roguish manner; †wickedly, reprehensibly (obsolete); mischievously.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > [adverb]
lorellya1475
knavishly1481
rascally1572
roguishly1611
scoundrelously1681
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [adverb]
lorellya1475
knavishly1481
rascally1572
knavelya1593
roguishly1611
scoundrelously1681
queerly1699
rapscallionly1699
scampishly1880
the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > mischievous or practical joking > [adverb]
waggishly1616
archly1712
slyly1837
roguishly1863
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Meschamment,..roguishly, knauishly, villanously.
1621 T. Granger Familiar Expos. Eccles. 303 His heir roguishly wasteth all, and is at last hanged.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xii. 341 They had gotten abundance of small Stones, which they roguishly threw about on the peoples heads.
1757 D. Garrick Lilliput i. 11 An elderly Lady (who tho' past Love Matters herself, seemed willing to forward 'em)..mumbled something, look'd roguishly, and left me.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1763 I. 211 ‘From Scotland,’ cried Davies, roguishly.
1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales (ed. 2) II. ii. 47 Nearly all the Currency criminals have, indeed, been furnished by three roguishly prolific families in the colony.
1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. i. 28 A man of slim figure, whose eye twinkled rather roguishly.
1909 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea xvii. 195 ‘Well, it's never too late to mend,’ said Anne roguishly.
1994 Sunday Times 6 Mar. viii. 19/3 I roguishly suggested, a few weeks ago, that all spec-built houses in Britain were visually inept.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adv.1611- make a mess
- make a mess of
- make a mien
- make a mill of
- make a mint
- make a mint of money
- make a miracle
- make a miration
- make a misdeal
- make a mislick
- make a mock at
- make a mock of
- make a mockery of
- make a monkey of
- make a monkey out of
- make a monopoly of
- make a moorburn
- make a motion
- make a motive
- make a mountain of a molehill
- make a mountain out of a molehill
- make a mourn
- make a mouth
- make a mouths
- make a move