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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

We have serious enemies and growing threats around the world. Unfortunately, we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state is Arizona.
Mitt Romney

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

A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.
John Gay

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

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

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

The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really basically have, sort of, benign dictatorships, need to get with the program if they want to have long-term security and prosperity from terrorism.
Mitch McConnell

We need to fix this. It hasn't been done yet because there's still a reluctance to admit that there was even a problem - anywhere above seven rogue soldiers who got out of control on the night shift.
Janis Karpinski

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
Henry Fielding

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

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
Henry Fielding

We believe, as the President has indicated, that this combination of a rogue state that possesses weapons of mass destruction and has known ties to terrorist organizations, is a grave threat to the people of the United States and to other countries around the world.
Paul Cellucci

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

We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.
Bruce Sterling

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

The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.
Armstrong Williams

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?
Jessamyn West

China is one of the world's greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations.
Fred Thompson

Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation.
Dianne Feinstein

As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.
David Korten

We live in a dangerous world where rogue nations are developing longer range missiles. We have to make a strong effort at developing defenses against this threat.
Jim Saxton

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

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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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