Adjective : rakish behavior. From Dictionary.com.
Adjective : a hat worn at a rakish angle. From Dictionary.com.
I think it's kind of rakish--looks like he's winking. From Wordnik.com. [What I cooked last night.] Reference
It turned out looking kind of rakish and cheerful and rather like how I like to think of myself. From Wordnik.com. [Hip Op minus four days] Reference
My insistence that my haircuts are in some capacity 'rakish' no matter what anybody (chotbot) says. From Wordnik.com. [robotsarered Diary Entry] Reference
Danny pulled another, only a trifle less rakish, beside it. From Wordnik.com. [Baldy of Nome] Reference
His tin hat slid to one side of his head at a rakish angle. From Wordnik.com. [The Whispering Spheres] Reference
The bow-oar gives a rakish air to the bows o 'the dark-blue craft. From Wordnik.com. [Sagittulae, Random Verses] Reference
Swap in a rakish, middle-aged straight man and comic high jinks ensue. From Wordnik.com. [Speak Softly And Carry …] Reference
He cocked his hat at a rakish angle and chuckled as he remembered Dino. From Wordnik.com. [King Rat]
We wore the silk scarf, sunglasses and rakish hat with a leather Jacket. From Wordnik.com. [The Biography of a Rabbit] Reference
I found her a rakish-looking vessel with her boarding netting triced up. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
There was a rakish, devil-may-care note in his voice that filled her with. From Wordnik.com. [The Splendid Folly] Reference
Each car was of the same type, a long rakish grey body, low to the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts In Russia] Reference
No, it was not Velasco; it was some one else, a gypsey in a rakish costume. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Cross] Reference
As he waited at the corner for his car a low, rakish roadster stopped before him. From Wordnik.com. [Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles] Reference
Janet was humming as she put on her berry cap and pulled it over at a rakish angle. From Wordnik.com. [Phyllis A Twin] Reference
It was a little on one side and gave the good clergyman a decidedly rakish appearance. From Wordnik.com. [The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air] Reference
She was a supercilious-looking craft, sitting at a rakish angle, her engines being aft. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference
Fred was a good looking young man, genteelly dressed, but with a dissipated, rakish air. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
Or was it sincere, a gesture of goodwill and openhearted, rakish, devil-may-care bonhomie?. From Wordnik.com. [ARTINFO: Francophrenia: A Digest of New York's Epic James Franco Profile] Reference
We felt hip wrapped inside the Pacifica's rakish profile and we all enjoyed its smooth ride. From Wordnik.com. [Road Test: Pacifica] Reference
Grace glanced back and saw a low, dust-covered racing car, rakish and low-hung, swinging along. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake Or, the stirring cruise of the motor boat Gem] Reference
He tilted the little overseas cap which Lily wore to a rakish angle between the mascot's horns. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Luck] Reference
Perched like a rakish derby hat on the arm of the towering pump windmill was the slop cauldron. From Wordnik.com. [Make Mine Homogenized] Reference
He put it on his head, where it assumed the rakish tilt of a hobo's favorite tam-o'-shanter, and said. From Wordnik.com. [The Impossibles] Reference
Her mass of dark hair was tucked under a green tam o 'shanter perched at an unconsciously rakish angle. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference
We were real characters by now with our leather jackets, rakish hats and our 45's in our shoulder holsters. From Wordnik.com. [The Biography of a Rabbit] Reference
At last, one day, he drew the embroidered slipper from his pocket, and, with a rakish wink of his eye, said. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
The umbrella, though shabbier and more rakish-looking than ever, wore a cheery, hail-fellow-well-met appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir] Reference
Grace wore a rakish little Scottish cap affair that was immensely becoming but not at all comfortable to swim in. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point Or a Wreck and a Rescue] Reference
She took off her hat, which flight had flung to a somewhat rakish angle, and blinked vigorously towards the trees. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
She'd be about two tons register, a rakish little motor boat, sailing under the name Gem and looking every inch of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake Or, the stirring cruise of the motor boat Gem] Reference
Winter was only twenty-six, a handsome brown fellow, with arched eyebrows, long lashes, prominent nose, and rakish air. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 379, July 4, 1829] Reference
On the floor lay a boy's cap, torn, rakish, faded with the sun and the snow of their wanderings -- a little, green cap. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Cross] Reference
The house itself had lost all its rakish and forlorn look, though it retained, in spite of paint, its inviting air of mystery. From Wordnik.com. [Phyllis A Twin] Reference
The Gekko is back — and not that pesky insurance-peddling lizard, but rather the rakish reptile of Wall Street, Gordon Gekko. From Wordnik.com. [Five insider shopping tips for Gordon Gekko] Reference
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