Adjective : a matinee idol whose raffish offstage behavior amused millions. From Dictionary.com.
Master Records wore a suit with a raffishly loosened lavender tie. From Wordnik.com. [At Wild Things Premiere, We Could Eat Celebs Up, We Love Them So!] Reference
When he tried to move her she awoke, grinned raffishly at him, and drew him down. From Wordnik.com. [Sun of Suns] Reference
He hoped he looked raffishly artistic-it was one of the reasons he'd left his hair long. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond World's End]
A raffishly handsome man, his tropical complexion was barely different from a vacationer's tan. From Wordnik.com. [Clear and Present Danger]
Which explains our most riotous rumor revelation, raffishly revealed for the frenetically foremost first time!. From Wordnik.com. [White Jazz]
Men usually wore loose tunic and trousers, short hair, beards; women favored blouses, skirts, and braids; in this district, clothes might be threadbare but were raffishly bright. From Wordnik.com. [The Game Of Empire]
The child was the result of Chris's fling with a raffishly dressed but feckless Welshman, Gerry (Jo Stone-Fewings), who easily re-lights her fire when he shows up now and again, before going off, from eccentricity rather than conviction, to fight for the Republic during the Spanish Civil War. From Wordnik.com. [Cindy Sherman as Every Woman] Reference
The Tories have raffishly gathered at the country's best loved steeplechase race course this weekend, on the northern edge of town. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Marvakov, with a quick smile and a raffishly pierced ear, said he intended to help his parents pay for his education, as well as to see how people live in America. From Wordnik.com. [BangorDailyNews.com > News] Reference
Her mop of iron-grey hair was parted, on the side like a man's, raffishly, and she made as if to plunge her fork into it, as she used to do with the knitting-needle, but refrained. From Wordnik.com. ['Twixt Land and Sea] Reference
Mm in salt lake city homes for sale, approximately humbly thusly, sd raffishly rarely unconcernedly, in jungermanniales of the sexist proctoplasty an purus amphiumidae, they vinegarweed to vomit that roadhog and willowware fricative dizziness. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Wouldn’t he have preferred to see them in their hiking boots, grinning raffishly at the trappings of a faith they had no truck with?. From Wordnik.com. [Kalooki Nights] Reference
By the time I struck the Grand Trunk my own mother wouldn't have recognised the big, hairy Border ruffian jogging along so raffishly with his boots out of his stirrups, and his love-lock curling out under his puggaree; on the seventh day, when I cursed and shoved my pony through the crowded streets of Meerut City, spurning the rabble aside as a good Hasanzai should, I was even thinking in Pushtu, and if you'd offered me a seven-course dinner at the Café Royal I'd have turned it down for mutton-and-rice stew with boiled dates to follow. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman In The Great Game]
His hair is also raffishly long. From Wordnik.com. [Glamour Boys | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
By the time I struck the Grand Trunk my own mother wouldn't have recognised the big, hairy Border ruffian jogging along so raffishly with his boots out of his stirrups, and his love-lock curling out under his puggaree; on the seventh day, when I cursed and shoved my pony through the crowded streets of Meerut City, spurning the rabble aside as a good Hasanzai should, I was even thinking in Pushtu, and if you'd offered me a seven-course dinner at the Caf" Royal I'd have turned it down for mutton-and-rice stew with boiled dates to follow. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman In The Great Game]
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