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Why not the antics of sly Elizabethan housewives playing tricks on a fatuous drunken roue?
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Peter Marks, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2020
In the film, Jennifer Jones played the heroine, in her maid’s cap and apron, and French actor Charles Boyer was Adam Belinski, the refugee Czech intellectual roue, on the Hollywood assumption that one European accent is as good as another.
—New York Times, 12 Apr. 2018
Peter Marks, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2020
In the film, Jennifer Jones played the heroine, in her maid’s cap and apron, and French actor Charles Boyer was Adam Belinski, the refugee Czech intellectual roue, on the Hollywood assumption that one European accent is as good as another.
—New York Times, 12 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for roué
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Growing microgreens outdoors in a garden requires a similar procedure: Smooth out existing soil in your garden with a rake.Julie Marks, Verywell Health, 29 Oct. 2024
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Lyn handed me a hollow yellow rake that looked more like a child’s beach toy than a tool.Avery Keatley, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Oct. 2024
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His peeling of bills from stacks of funny money, or tossing that faux cash into the audience, further reinforced his persona as a high-rolling playboy.Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2024
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One client was Marc Leder, a private-equity playboy, famously divorced (his wife had cheated with the tennis pro), whom the A-Team helped purchase two Noho apartments worth $30 million.James D. Walsh, Curbed, 12 Aug. 2024
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Biggest Fear: Pain of their own insecurity, uncertainty. Type 7: The Enthusiast/Epicure The enthusiast/epicure looks to explore all the wonders of life and are always on the hunt for new experiences and adventures.Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 25 Apr. 2024
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Simic’s work is often described as surreal, darkly humorous, minimalist, the work of an impassioned epicure.Rowan Ricardo Phillips, The New Republic, 13 Jan. 2023
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In fact, a recent article comparing the energy consumption spanning 20 years by the top 500 supercomputers in the world found that a publicly available quantum computer with the same compute power as the top-energy glutton on the list, consumed less than 0.05% of the electricity.Tor Constantino, MBA, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
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Solar fields to help power these energy gluttons are expected to gobble up 10 million acres of rural land over the next 10 years.Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
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“Roué.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rou%C3%A9. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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