ROGUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rogue mean? 

• ROGUE (noun)
  The noun ROGUE has 1 sense:

1. a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel

  Familiarity information: ROGUE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROGUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

knave; rapscallion; rascal; rogue; scalawag; scallywag; varlet

Hypernyms ("rogue" is a kind of...):

scoundrel; villain (a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately)

 Context examples 

But who are these ill-faced rogues who block the path?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Astronomers say there have been only a few rogue planets discovered to date.

(Astronomers Discover New Planet Not Orbiting Any Star, VOA)

The rogues looked at each other but swallowed the home-thrust in silence.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

An international group of astronomers has identified a rogue planet orbiting its star in the so-called Neptunian Desert.

(‘Forbidden’ planet found wandering ‘Neptunian Desert’, University of Cambridge)

Well, last night about ten o’clock in ’e comes into my bar, and the three bloodiest rogues in London at ’is ’eels.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A common acute leukemia chromosomal translocation t(6;11)(q27;q23) involves fusion of MLLT4 and MLL/HRX that results in production of a rogue activator protein.

(AF-6 Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

So the rogues went: and when they found what these yellow buttons were, they took them all away, and left her plenty of plates and dishes.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

That is clear enough; but what is not so clear is why at sight of us one of the rogues should instantly walk out of the room and hang himself.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Upon inquiry I was told, “that their names were to be found on no record, except a few of them, whom history has represented as the vilest of rogues and traitors.”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Batygin says he spends little time ruminating on its origin — whether it is a fugitive from our own solar system or, just maybe, a wandering rogue planet captured by the sun's gravity.

(The Super-Earth that Came Home for Dinner, NASA)