Adjective : a matinee idol whose raffish offstage behavior amused millions. From Dictionary.com.
It's more fun with nicknames and raffishness and amiable crime. From Wordnik.com. [Damon Runyan: A Life] Reference
Yet raffishness notwithstanding, the entire visual scheme is as fraught with socioeconomic symbolism as any. From Wordnik.com. [Home Alone] Reference
The silkysmooth Gallagher lacks raffishness: it's like a Broadway pastrami sandwich with mayo instead of mustard. From Wordnik.com. [What Becomes A Legend?] Reference
As the paper grew, the raffishness waned; for Ms. Dowd's generation, Mr. Gelb's revelations were an astonishment. From Wordnik.com. [Times Building sold: Ghosts, dirt thrown in gratis] Reference
Although it was probably the grandest hotel Wexford had ever stayed in, the bar was so dark as to imply raffishness or at least that it would be wiser not to see what one was drinking. From Wordnik.com. [Put On By Cunning]
When worn loose its luxuriance would have given her a gypsy-like raffishness, but now her face, devoid of make-up except for a slash of bright lipstick and drained of animation, looked nakedly vulnerable. From Wordnik.com. [The Murder Room]
The photographs capture the city's zaniness, raffishness and panache - the cover has crimson and black high heels kicking up against a gray skyline. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
They belong to the half smart set, eager to conceal beneath a show of raffishness their plentiful lack of intellect and their fundamental bourgeois respectability. From Wordnik.com. [The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel] Reference
But the real reason to eat and drink at Bernard's is to experience a vanishing Seattle, the one that existed before slick hipsterism took the place of honest-to-goodness raffishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
He also objected to a certain raffishness which in an extremely mixed crowd of patriots rather too obviously "swept away silly old fads" and left the truly advanced to do as they liked. From Wordnik.com. [Robin] Reference
"And another element to him which perhaps should not go unmentioned is his raffishness, if you like, his air of disreputability. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
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