Rogue
WordNet
noun
(1) A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
WiktionaryText
Noun
- A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
- A mischievous scamp.
- A vagrant.
- Deceitful software pretending to be anti-spyware, but in fact being malicious software itself.
- An aggressive animal separate from the herd, especially an elephant.
- A plant that shows some undesirable variation.
- 2000 Carol Deppe, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties, Totnes: Chelsea Green Pub.
- Maintaining varieties also requires selection, however. It's usually referred to as culling or roguing. ...we examine the [plant] population and eliminate the occasional rogue.
- 2000 Carol Deppe, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties, Totnes: Chelsea Green Pub.
- An entity set apart from the normal order, which acts in an independent manner. This can apply to individuals, states, or other entities.
Adjective
- Vicious and solitary.
- Large, destructive and unpredictable.
- Deceitful, unprincipled.
- 2004: Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
- In the minds of Republican hard-liners, the "Silent Majority" of Americans who had elected the President, and even Nixon's two Democrat predecessors, China was a gigantic nuke-wielding rogue state prepared to overrun the free world at any moment.
- 2004: Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
- Operating outside of normal controls.
Verb
- cull, term used by gardeners, especially when saving seed, rogue or unwanted plants are removed before pollination.
- 2000 Carol Deppe, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties, Totnes: Chelsea Green Pub.
- Maintaining varieties also requires selection, however. It's usually referred to as culling or roguing. ...we examine the [plant] population and eliminate the occasional rogue.
- 2000 Carol Deppe, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties, Totnes: Chelsea Green Pub.