Definition of Rogue

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Definition of Rogue

Rogue

A vagrant; an idle, sturdy beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.

A deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat.

One who is pleasantly mischievous or frolicsome; hence, often used as a term of endearment.

An elephant that has separated from a herd and roams about alone, in which state it is very savage.

A worthless plant occuring among seedlings of some choice variety.

To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.

To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.

To destroy (plants that do not come up to a required standard).

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Rogue Quotations

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
Barack Obama

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.
Jonathan Swift

Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
Jack Nicholson

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.
Emma Goldman

Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.
Madeleine Albright

Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.
Charlton Heston

My own favorite is something called Rogue Male.
Peter O'Toole

With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.
Jeanette Winterson

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
Jeanette Winterson

Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.
Leon Kass

Rogue Translations

rogue in Afrikaans is ploert
rogue in Dutch is boef, ellendeling, schavuit, ploert
rogue in Finnish is roisto
rogue in French is canaille, gredin
rogue in German is Schalk, Galgenstrick, Schurke

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