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Synonyms for roguish

Synonyms for roguish: devilish and rascally. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 4, High Camp · 2 senses · adjective

The 2 synonyms for roguish

devilishadjective, in the sense "playful in an appealingly bold way"
rascallyadjective, in the sense "lacking principles or scruples"

All two are filed under roguish's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.

Sense 1 of 2adjectiveTier 4, High CampPeople and roles

playful in an appealingly bold way

A roguish grin.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

devilish

Same sentence, swapped: A devilish grin.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where roguish stands in the sentence above.

reprobate
infamous
notorious

Sense 2 of 2adjectiveTier 4, High CampPeople and roles

lacking principles or scruples

The captain was set adrift by his roguish crew.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

rascally

Same sentence, swapped: The captain was set adrift by his rascally crew.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

sportive
notorious
foolish

Where roguish turns up in the game

roguish is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play roguish

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so roguish reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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