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Roguish vs Designing - What's the difference?

roguish | designing | Related terms |

As adjectives the difference between roguish and designing

is that roguish is unprincipled or unscrupulous while designing is artful; scheming.

As a verb designing is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun designing is

a process of design.

roguish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • unprincipled or unscrupulous
  • mischievous and playful
  • * 1840 , The Novel Newspaper (volume 2, page 8)
    • "She'll be a match for poor little Cupid, with his tiny bow and arrow, I dare say," said Grace Fitzgerald, with a roguish eye.

    Derived terms

    * roguishly * roguishness

    designing

    English

    (design)

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • artful; scheming
    • a designing man

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A process of design.
  • * 1829 , Richard Carlile, The Lion
    • Are these, the reality of things, a part of the great designings or are they not? If so, it would have been better, that there had been no such designings; if not, how is the theory of omnipotent design borne out?