Sentence example with the word 'raffish'

raffish

boorish, churlish, clownish, fast, hooliganish, loutish, lumpish, rakish, rowdy, ruffianly, yokelish

Definition adj. marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners

Last update: June 28, 2016


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He was moving about with a raffish air. .   [adjective]

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Yet despite this, much of Clifton still retained a raffish charm which appealed across generations and classes.   [adjective]

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In the old colonial days people came to sleepy Macao from bustling Hong Kong in order to savor its raffish Portuguese atmosphere.   [adjective]

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With this raffish little fleet Paul Jones set out to do great deeds.   [Please select]

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And though no man could have sworn to the color of that hat, whether it was blue or green, yet its color was a saner thing than its shape, which was blurred, tortured, and raffish; it might have been the miniature model of a volcano that had blown off its cone and misbehaved disastrously on its lower slopes as well.   [Please select]

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