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Synonyms for roué

Grammar : Noun
Spell : roo-ey, roo-ey
Phonetic Transcription : ruˈeɪ, ˈru eɪ

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Définition of roué

Origin :
  • "debauchee," 1800, from French roué "dissipated man, rake," originally past participle of Old French rouer "to break on the wheel" (15c.), from Latin rotare "roll" (see rotary). Said to have been first applied in French c.1720 to dissolute friends of the Duke of Orleans (regent of France 1715-23), to suggest the punishment they deserved; but probably rather from a secondary, figurative sense in French of "jaded, worn out," from the notion of "broken, run-over, beat down."
  • As in profligate : noun person who is immoral
  • As in inveigler : noun seducer
  • As in Lothario : noun seducer
  • As in lurer : noun seducer
  • As in Don Juan : noun womanizer
Example sentences :
  • I was not prepared to find you grown from a roue into a senator.
  • Extract from : « Pelham, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • Mark me, doctor, Dorothy will not put up an instant with a roue and a brute.
  • Extract from : « Richard Carvel, Complete » by Winston Churchill
  • When with the gambler, or the roue, he was equally at home—a debauchee, or a handler of cards.
  • Extract from : « Ellen Walton » by Alvin Addison
  • The face that might have been handsome was the reflection of a roue, dashing, devilish.
  • Extract from : « Graustark » by George Barr McCutcheon
  • Later the deserted admirer became again a roue inflamed with wine and submitted to a close-up that would depict his baffled rage.
  • Extract from : « Merton of the Movies » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • He bade fair to be utterly used up and a roue, in a few years, if he were to continue at the pace at which he was going.
  • Extract from : « The History of Pendennis » by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • "Not back to the home I left for the sake of a gambler and roue," she said, bitterly.
  • Extract from : « Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter » by Lawrence L. Lynch
  • He had been a roue in his youth, but seemed now the perfect representative of a benignant and virtuous old age.
  • Extract from : « Sybil » by Benjamin Disraeli
  • How could it be other than a terrible thought for her that her daughter listened willingly to this roue?
  • Extract from : « A Woman of Thirty » by Honore de Balzac
  • Vice does not form with them, as with the English roue, an occasional excess, but is consistent and regular in its habits.
  • Extract from : « The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction » by Various
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