The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rogue \Rogue\, n. [F. rogue proud, haughty, supercilious; cf. Icel. hr?kr a rook, croaker (cf. Rook a bird), or Armor. rok, rog, proud, arogant.]
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(Eng.Law) A vagrant; an idle, sturdy beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
Note: The phrase rogues and vagabonds is applied to a large class of wandering, disorderly, or dissolute persons. They were formerly punished by being whipped and having the gristle of the right ear bored with a hot iron.
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A deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat.
The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise.
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One who is pleasantly mischievous or frolicsome; hence, often used as a term of endearment.
Ah, you sweet little rogue, you!
--Shak. An elephant that has separated from a herd and roams about alone, in which state it is very savage.
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(Hort.) A worthless plant occuring among seedlings of some choice variety.
Rogues' gallery, a collection of portraits of rogues or criminals, for the use of the police authorities.
Rogue's march, derisive music performed in driving away a person under popular indignation or official sentence, as when a soldier is drummed out of a regiment.
Rogue's yarn, yarn of a different twist and color from the rest, inserted into the cordage of the British navy, to identify it if stolen, or for the purpose of tracing the maker in case of defect. Different makers are required to use yarns of different colors.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A set of pictures of convicted or suspected criminals used in law enforcement investigations to help witnesses identify suspects. 2 (context idiomatic by extension English) A group of lawbreakers or other disreputable characters.
Wikipedia
Rogues' Gallery is a 1944 American film directed by Albert Herman.
Rogues' Gallery was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1968 and 1969. It was set around London's Newgate Prison in the 18th century.
"Rogues' Gallery" is the eleventh episode of the television series Gotham. It premiered on FOX on January 5, 2015 and was written by Sue Chung, and directed by Oz Scott. In this episode, Gordon ( Ben McKenzie) is transferred to Arkham Asylum and tries to avoid a conflict when inmates riot with the help of Dr. Leslie Thompkins ( Morena Baccarin).
The episode was watched by 7.06 million viewers, an improvement over the previous episode. It received mixed reviews, with critics criticizing the time spent in Arkham Asylum. On January 17, 12 days after the episode aired, FOX announced Gotham would be renewed for a second season.
Usage examples of "rogues' gallery".
It is the regulars who get the two million, those known to the police, whose pictures are, many of them, in the Rogues' Gallery, whose careers and haunts are known to every probation officer.
Once and for all, I'll have no college swankies (you see, I am well voiced in love's arsenal and all its overtures from collion boys to colleen bawns so I have every reason to know that rogues' gallery of nightbirds and bitchfanciers, lucky duffs and light lindsays, haughty hamiltons and gay gordons, dosed, doctored and otherwise, messing around skirts and what their fickling intentions look like, you make up your mind to that) trespassing on your danger zone in the dancer years.
The walls in the waiting room outside Sandecker's private office in the NUMA headquarters building are covered with a rogues' gallery of photographs taken of the admiral hobnobbing with the rich and famous.
Reader, if you had come to spend the night in the lonely castle of a perfect stranger with a shifty eye and a rogues' gallery smile, and on retiring to your room had found the door kick-proof and the window barred, and if, immediately after your discovery of these phenomena, a white-faced young lady had plunged in upon you and urged you to immediate flight, wouldn't that jar you?
Then Pyotr said, 'This is while we're checking on your Rogues' Gallery, sir?
The detective spread dozens of rogues' gallery pictures out over his desk.
Collected for her in the anteroom that day were a rogues' gallery of malformed.
Here Joe told what he knew and Malone's record was looked up in the Rogues' Gallery.
The assembled faces were a rogues' gallery of interstellar villainy, ranging from petty theft to murder-and beyond.