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Recent Examples of roué
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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Krupin spent about $1,000 on initial supplies — a children’s gardening rake, trash bags, gloves, a dust pan and disinfectant — as well as an LLC, business insurance, a website domain, a cargo trailer and hitch for her car.Morgan Smith, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2024
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With a chirping vocal register that pays just the right amount of homage to Kristin Chenoweth, who originated the role on Broadway, and hair-flips deployed like Sideshow Bob rake gags, Grande approaches her character’s obliviousness as intelligently as anyone in Barbie did last year.Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2024
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Frank Langella, Dracula (1979) This lush adaptation with a score by John Williams is one of the most overtly erotic, featuring Langella as a dashing playboy Dracula who seduces Harker’s fiancée.Celia Mattison, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
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Bill Murray and Rashida Jones tell the story of a young mother who reconnects with her larger-than-life playboy father on an adventure through New York.Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 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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The bad guys are rich gluttons, the good guys are the struggling poor.Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024
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Luckily, gluttons like us are covered by the Monday night fixture, which promises to be a lively one: Newcastle host West Ham.Nick Miller, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
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“Roué.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rou%C3%A9. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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