rogue

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Singular
rogue

Plural
rogues

rogue (plural rogues)

  1. A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
  2. A mischievous scamp.
  3. A vagrant.
  4. Deceitful software pretending to be anti-spyware, but in fact being malicious software itself.
  5. An aggressive animal separate from the herd, especially an elephant.
  6. A plant that shows some undesirable variation.
    • 2000 Carol Deppe, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties, Totnes: Chelsea Green Pub.
      Maintaining varieties also requires selection, however. It's usually referred to as culling or roguing. ...we examine the [plant] population and eliminate the occasional rogue.


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a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person
a mischievous scamp
a vagrant
deceitful software pretending to be anti-spyware, but in fact being malicious software itself
an aggressive animal separate from the herd, especially an elephant
a plant that shows some undesirable variation
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rogue (comparative more rogue, superlative most rogue)

Positive
rogue

Comparative
more rogue

Superlative
most rogue
  1. (of an animal, especially an elephant) Vicious and solitary.
  2. (by extension) Large, destructive and unpredictable.
  3. (by extension) Deceitful, unprincipled.
    • 2004: Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
      In the minds of Republican hard-liners, the "Silent Majority" of Americans who had elected the President, and even Nixon's two Democrat predecessors, China was a gigantic nuke-wielding rogue state prepared to overrun the free world at any moment.

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Infinitive
to rogue

Third person singular
rogues

Simple past
rogued

Past participle
rogued

Present participle
roguing

to rogue (third-person singular simple present rogues, present participle roguing, simple past and past participle rogued)

  1. cull, term used by gardeners, especially when saving seed, rogue or unwanted plants are removed before pollination.
    • 2000 Carol Deppe, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties, Totnes: Chelsea Green Pub.
      Maintaining varieties also requires selection, however. It's usually referred to as culling or roguing. ...we examine the [plant] population and eliminate the occasional rogue.

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