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Raffish

adjective

Marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners. Synonyms: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, rakish, snappy, spiffy, spruce. "A jaunty red hat"

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

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... 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

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