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Definition of roué in English: rouénoun ˈruːeɪruˈeɪ dated A debauched man, especially an elderly one. (尤指上了年纪的)浪荡子,酒色之徒 he had lived the life of a roué in the fleshpots of London and Paris Example sentencesExamples - Besides Cohn, there was Claudius Charles Philippe, a suave, thrice-married roué eighteen years Walters' senior.
- Was that bifocaled roué on TV last night actually Grampa Butcher himself?
- Always ‘in character’ as the self-appointed roué, Jerome's encounters with women are strangely enervated events.
- He was seen as ‘passionate, greedy and vindictive’ by another Italian, the Siennese roué, who visited him in 1435.
- The mobsters and grifters and roués of the demimonde didn't have a college degree; they had money and juice.
- His date turned out to be an utterly delightful 24-year-old, who warmed to my charms and made me feel like a right roué.
- Newman's powerful onscreen presence makes him a charming roué; he slips on the role with professional ease, bringing an offhand sexiness to his role.
- The roué can't produce the heroic memoir that's expected of him, and smoke-free Vancouver, with its vegetarians and sexual-harassment policies, is not the haven he hoped for.
- If he stars in the operetta, he would no doubt cast himself as an endlessly bumbling, ageing roué.
- He saw a country ruled by an ageing roué, with demonic powers of mass hypnosis and a leaning towards Communist China.
- The story centres on Sarah Wode-Douglass, a poetry editor enticed to steaming 1970s Kuala Lumpur by a literary roué who she suspects is implicated in her mother's death.
- He must also have looked into the mirror when he considered the great roué, whose smooth approach and good looks make him a master of seduction.
- It is like a roué making a renewed vow of total, absolute, unconditional marital fidelity but asking for a 10 year grace period for the transition to it.
- Are there mitigating circumstances, or just a middle-aged roué's glib excuses?
- She enters to kibosh her son's prospects, only to be told, when the family facts emerge, that she should marry the high-born roué who has ruined her.
- Isabelle arrives accompanied by her silly and pretentious mother and Romainville, a middle-aged roué and friend.
Synonyms libertine, rake, debauchee, dissolute man, loose-liver, degenerate, profligate lecher, seducer, ladies' man, womanizer, philanderer, adulterer, Don Juan, Lothario, Casanova, playboy sensualist, sybarite, voluptuary informal ladykiller, lech, dirty old man, goat, wolf, skirt-chaser dated gay dog, rip, blood archaic rakehell rare dissolute
OriginEarly 19th century: French, literally 'broken on a wheel', referring to the instrument of torture thought to be deserved by such a person. Definition of roué in US English: rouénounruˈeɪro͞oˈā dated A debauched man, especially an elderly one. (尤指上了年纪的)浪荡子,酒色之徒 he had lived the life of a roué in the fleshpots of London and Paris Example sentencesExamples - He must also have looked into the mirror when he considered the great roué, whose smooth approach and good looks make him a master of seduction.
- He saw a country ruled by an ageing roué, with demonic powers of mass hypnosis and a leaning towards Communist China.
- The mobsters and grifters and roués of the demimonde didn't have a college degree; they had money and juice.
- He was seen as ‘passionate, greedy and vindictive’ by another Italian, the Siennese roué, who visited him in 1435.
- Isabelle arrives accompanied by her silly and pretentious mother and Romainville, a middle-aged roué and friend.
- Always ‘in character’ as the self-appointed roué, Jerome's encounters with women are strangely enervated events.
- Are there mitigating circumstances, or just a middle-aged roué's glib excuses?
- Besides Cohn, there was Claudius Charles Philippe, a suave, thrice-married roué eighteen years Walters' senior.
- Newman's powerful onscreen presence makes him a charming roué; he slips on the role with professional ease, bringing an offhand sexiness to his role.
- If he stars in the operetta, he would no doubt cast himself as an endlessly bumbling, ageing roué.
- The roué can't produce the heroic memoir that's expected of him, and smoke-free Vancouver, with its vegetarians and sexual-harassment policies, is not the haven he hoped for.
- She enters to kibosh her son's prospects, only to be told, when the family facts emerge, that she should marry the high-born roué who has ruined her.
- His date turned out to be an utterly delightful 24-year-old, who warmed to my charms and made me feel like a right roué.
- The story centres on Sarah Wode-Douglass, a poetry editor enticed to steaming 1970s Kuala Lumpur by a literary roué who she suspects is implicated in her mother's death.
- It is like a roué making a renewed vow of total, absolute, unconditional marital fidelity but asking for a 10 year grace period for the transition to it.
- Was that bifocaled roué on TV last night actually Grampa Butcher himself?
Synonyms libertine, rake, debauchee, dissolute man, loose-liver, degenerate, profligate
OriginEarly 19th century: French, literally ‘broken on a wheel’, referring to the instrument of torture thought to be deserved by such a person. |