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Raffish   /rˈæfɪʃ/   Listen
Raffish

adjective
1.
Marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners.  Synonyms: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, rakish, snappy, spiffy, spruce.  "A jaunty red hat"
2.
Marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness.  Synonyms: devil-may-care, rakish.






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"Raffish" Quotes from Famous Books



... the man before this in the village, and detested him on sight; there was something indescribably raffish in his looks and ways that raised my gorge; and when man-eating was referred to, and he laughed a low, cruel laugh, part boastful, part bashful, like one reminded of some dashing peccadillo, my repugnance was mingled with nausea. ...
— In the South Seas • Robert Louis Stevenson

... glance at the female in black had taken her to be. She was quite young, remarkably good looking. Even at the first instant I was struck by her eyes and the mass of bronze hair and the twitching of a childish mouth. But she had an untidy, touzled, raffish appearance, due to I knew not what investiture of disrepute. Her hands—for she wore no ...
— The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne • William J. Locke



Words linked to "Raffish" :   unconventional, fashionable, stylish



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