0 a quality that suggests someone is acting in a way that is slightly bad or wrong, but not seriously so: --
She was very fond of the old man, made him sit beside her, and called him "grandfather" with a mournful attempt at roguishness.
They were singularly lovely eyes--retaining something of their girlish roguishness.
If there is one thing we despise, it is transparent roguishness on the part of an author.
She said nothing more, only raised her great blue eyes and gave him a look, a never-to-be-forgotten look, behind whose roguishness a riddle was concealed.
Sometimes one had arched while the other remained quiet; this gave a winsome look of brightness and roguishness to her face.
He turned upon his heel hastily; she stood before him smiling, her eyes overflowing with roguishness and affection.
It was the spirits and the intelligence, combined with inordinate roguishness, that made him what he was.
His expression lost its roguishness, and in his turn he became grave.
