If a person is known to be raffish, others will be wary when they are nearby. From LearnThat.org.
Adjective : a matinee idol whose raffish offstage behavior amused millions. From Dictionary.com.
Simon Begg came down the lane in a raffish red sports car. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
Again, his raffish companions might have shot me on sight. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman and the angel of the lord]
So, you know, that was -- it was -- it was a raffish crowd. From Wordnik.com. [A Bohemian Brigade: The Civil War Correspondents - Mostly Rough, Sometimes Ready] Reference
Yet to Amaryllis it was perhaps the raffish green imitation-velours. From Wordnik.com. [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference
Bookshelf A lamentation for the lost world of raffish newspapering. From Wordnik.com. [Inky Reveries] Reference
Rag, and the ‘lurking’ or raffish Military Snob, Ensign Famish. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Snobs] Reference
A real hacker's language will always have a slightly raffish character. From Wordnik.com. [Being Popular] Reference
'Indus seems to enjoy a raffish reputation,' I suggested to the freedman. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
Grandma did this analysis, how space travel was getting a raffish reputation. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
That was raffish enough, if you ignored the searching, critical look in the eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
NEW YORK — Those raffish Damon Runyon residents of Times Square are closing up shop. From Wordnik.com. [Jon Chattman: Hair: The Tribe Has Spoken] Reference
The Bold Lions included six of the most raffish young scapegraces of Araminta Station. From Wordnik.com. [Araminta Station]
Zoya had on a raffish sailing cap and had made herself up to look like a pretty young man. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Bad Wolf]
I, on the other hand, am motivated by a charming and possibly even raffish need for approval. From Wordnik.com. [One For The Table: Checking It Twice] Reference
But his agents were lone operatives — raffish cousins of Baroness Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel. From Wordnik.com. [Bring Back James Bond!] Reference
Although the raffish peer denied all complicity, he did not come out of the business too well. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
A raffish smile was on the edge of his lips as he brushed them across the top of Janie's head. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl Possessed]
"I'm surprised to hear you patronize drinking establishments where such raffish elements gather,". From Wordnik.com. [The Universe — or Nothing] Reference
Faltar grinned, looking vaguely raffish with a lock of blond hair almost across his left eyebrow. From Wordnik.com. [Colors of Chaos]
She was refined and at the same time raffish, and her voice was full of depths and fluting melodies. From Wordnik.com. [Borrowed Finery, A Memoir]
'We are a new party but we do not want to give you the name,' said a raffish, amply constructed fellow. From Wordnik.com. [Boris in Iraq] Reference
Grant is every bit as good as the raffish C.K., while Hepburn shines in what may be her signature role. From Wordnik.com. [John Farr: James Stewart: On the Actor's Centennial, His Ten Best Films] Reference
The city's raffish edge, in fact, is part of its drawing power -- not unlike Berlin in its Weimar heyday. From Wordnik.com. [Poor But Sexy] Reference
With a wispy white chin beard, wild hair, and gleaming eyes, he might have been Siuntio's raffish brother. From Wordnik.com. [Rulers of the Darkness]
Clinton was portrayed in many press accounts as a raffish but engaging survivor, Gore as a bumbling pedant. From Wordnik.com. [Caught In Clinton's Shadow] Reference
Yet as Telemark drew nearer he saw that Jaric, who was usually fa-natically neat, looked raffish and unkempt. From Wordnik.com. [Stormwarden]
Led by a dreamy rookie quarterback and a raffish head coach, the arrivistes of the Meadowlands seduced the city. From Wordnik.com. [J-E-T-S Act Like They Own the Place] Reference
Havig got along well with his groom, a raffish Cappadocian married to the cook, and Xenia spoiled their children. From Wordnik.com. [Two in Time]
The raffish ambience of the Astoria Greeks is certainly not the same as the Manhattan venues, and you have to get there. From Wordnik.com. [Avery Corman: Greek Restaurants In New York: The Branzino Follies] Reference
The raffish young gentleman in gloves must measure his scholarship with the plain, clownish laddie from the parish school. From Wordnik.com. [Memories and Portraits] Reference
(Though they most likely never met, the two lived within a few blocks of each other in that raffish artists 'neighborhood.). From Wordnik.com. [A Different Way of Seeing] Reference
‘The seamy tour, eh?’ he said, wagging his nicely shaped eye-brows in a raffish commentary on the whims of the old and rich. From Wordnik.com. [The Beekeeper's Apprentice]
DreamWorks favors raffish scripts, celebrity voices, jokey topical references and animation that grabs attention with bold design. From Wordnik.com. ['Monsters' Dazzles Eye, Skips Brain] Reference
Hugh Jackman is the raffish Aussie cattle drover who meets her on her arrival, then joins forces with her against his better judgment. From Wordnik.com. [Down-Under Epic 'Australia': Grandly Over Top] Reference
If they could do that, need they ever have shot that raffish old lord — I beg pardon, my dear — your highly respected grandfather?. From Wordnik.com. [Erema] Reference
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