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raffish::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | devil-may-care, rakish |
a cocktail party given by some...raffish bachelors.
Examples of raffish
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His low tenor vocal phrasing is alternately raucously raffish and achingly tender.
From the sacbee.com
The raffish atmosphere of the river's South Bank is also firmly rooted in history.
From the telegraph.co.uk
If vaudeville was once king, burlesque was the nation's raffish, rococo old queen.
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Its wartime raffish chic inspired Lawrence Durrell to write the Alexandria Quartet.
From the businessweek.com
There, I have the pleasure of falling toward the raffish end of the fashion spectrum.
From the theatlantic.com
A tone of raffish candor, meant to be ingratiating, often surrounds such performances.
From the time.com
It's not as coherent a city as Wellington and its charms are more raffish.
From the nzherald.co.nz
In my riotous youth, I would sometimes refer to myself as the raffish Raoul Schpitzenberg.
From the washingtonpost.com
New Orleans is perhaps the most raffish and rococo of American cities.
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- Dapper: marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat"
- Devil-may-care: marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness; "a cocktail party given by some...raffish bachelors"- Crary Moore
- (raffishly) rakishly: in a rakish manner; "she wore her hat rakishly at an angle"
- Characterized by careless unconventionality; rakish; Low-class; disreputable; vulgar
- Mildly disreputable, rakish, nonconformist t -arts
