arch-rogue

plural arch-rogues

1. alternativeAlternative form of archrogue.

   Master Autolycus l—that rogue of rogues! that arch-rogue! that knave of knaves! that inexhaustible wag of a pedlar!

   1623, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

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   But always there came the doubt that Maunders was too shallow to be the arch-rogue. He was clever, but certainly not a genius, whereas The Spider was a Napoleon amongst the criminal fraternity

   1910, Fergus Hume, The Spider, page 108

   The Governor laughed at them, asserting that I was notorious; but as the days passed, so serious became the demands from Mr. Rever, Mr. Hancock, and Mr. Otis that the Governor sent Walter Butler to assure these gentlemen that he knew Mr. Cardigan well, and that the rogue in prison, who pretended to that name, was, in fact, a notorious felon named the Weasel, who had for years held the highway with the arch-rogue, Mount.

   2016, Robert William Chambers, Cardigan, →ISBN

   It is obvious that Popper was either with low intelligence, not understanding anything, a layman, who was occupied with activity extrinsic to him, speculating on Marx's creative work, or he was an arch-rogue in the science that was boosted into a position in the society by his likes.

   2017, Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face, →ISBN