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How to pronounce roue in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms blood, profligate, rake, rakehell, rip
Type of debauchee, libertine, rounder

Examples of roue

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Tom Clancy, millionaire author and unlikely roue, has returned to his wife.
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Roue de Paris left France in 2002 and in 2003-04 operated in Birmingham and Manchester, England.
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Swaggering revelry from bass-voiced, eggnog-swilling roue.
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Above all, in the role of the flip, fearless roue, he exudes a musky eau de Coburn that women find exhilarating.
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Palewski was a roue through and through.
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Like an aging roue looking back on halcyon days, the House Un-American Activities Committee has tried to sanitize its image.
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Director Phillip Breen milks every comic gag in this fast-moving knock-about scenario, focusing on the painful tricks played on the superannuated roue.
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Cristina, ready for an adventure, lures the painter to her and Vicky's table, and Juan Antonio, ever the gracious roue, proposes that the Americans accompany him to the town of Oviedo.
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It also enables her to deal as an equal even with a jaded smooth operator like her lover's best friend, played by Brosnan an aging roue, oily yet vulnerable.
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More examples
  • Rake: a dissolute man in fashionable society
  • A rake, short for rakehell, is a historic term applied to a man who is habituated to immoral conduct, frequently a heartless womaniser. Often a rake was a man who wasted his (usually inherited) fortune on gambling, wine, women and song, incurring lavish debts in the process. ...
  • Ru00F5ue is a village in Kehtna Parish, Rapla County in northern-central Estonia.
  • A debauched or lecherous person
  • An openly debauched, lecherous older man
  • This synonym for "rake" is French for "broken on the wheel"; the dissolute person was once thought to deserve this punishment. Such is the vengefulness of the jealous working person! See: RAKE.