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rogue | terrorist |

As a verb rogue

is .

As a noun terrorist is

terrorist.

rogue

English

(wikipedia rogue)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
  • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=“… No rogue e’er felt the halter draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it. […]”}}
  • * July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
  • As The Dark Knight Rises brings a close to Christopher Nolan’s staggeringly ambitious Batman trilogy, it’s worth remembering that director chose The Scarecrow as his first villain—not necessarily the most popular among the comic’s gallery of rogues , but the one who set the tone for entire series.
  • A mischievous scamp.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Ah, you sweet little rogue , you!
  • A vagrant.
  • Deceitful software pretending to be anti-spyware, but in fact being malicious software itself. (rfex)
  • 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 .
  • (label) A conduct.
  • Synonyms

    * See

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Vicious and solitary.
  • (by extension) Large, destructive and unpredictable.
  • (by extension) Deceitful, unprincipled.
  • * 2004: , 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.
  • Mischievous, unpredictable.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Travels and travails , passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}

    Verb

    (rogu)
  • (horticulture) To cull; to destroy plants not meeting a required standard. 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.
  • (obsolete) To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.
  • (Cudworth)
  • (obsolete) To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.
  • (Spenser)
    (Webster 1913)

    Derived terms

    * roguish * rogues' gallery * rogue state * rogue trader * rogue wave

    See also

    * rouge the shade of red

    Anagrams

    * ----

    terrorist

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person, group, or organization that uses violent action, or the threat of violent action, to further political goals.
  • An agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the in France.
  • Hyponyms

    * lone wolfer

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to terrorism.
  • Usage notes

    The use of the label "terrorist" is often controversial or subjective, since one person's terrorist may be another's "freedom fighter", and vice versa depending on somebody's personal ideology of beliefs. A cynical definition may be that a terrorist is someone who murders or terrorizes more of those for whom the terrorist is fighting, than his supposed enemies.

    Noun

    (nb-noun-m1)
  • (person who uses terror as a weapon in a political struggle)