She wore her hat rakishly at an angle. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
His hair was rakishly windblown, even though he was indoors. From Wordnik.com. [Amaryllis] Reference
His broad-brimmed hat is rakishly curled up on the left side. From Wordnik.com. [Festooned With Fantasy] Reference
Sunday doll's best velvet hat set rakishly on his head, and a Red. From Wordnik.com. [Dick Lionheart] Reference
Byzantine Empress and the amazing hat of the “Girl,” rakishly. From Wordnik.com. [The Arrow of Gold] Reference
The Evolve is the rakishly styled version of the popular Gold gas auto. From Wordnik.com. [Six Top Sporting Clays Shotguns from 2007] Reference
One sported a Tilley hat, fishing lure pinned to a rakishly flipped brim. From Wordnik.com. [Spider Bones] Reference
The barker donned a scuffed bowler hat that perched rakishly aside his head. From Wordnik.com. [Political Unity in the Big Tent] Reference
Holmes is wearing his famous deerstalker cap, rakishly hiding his bald spot. From Wordnik.com. [Guy Ritchie reboots Sherlock Holmes | EW.com] Reference
Mahony would wink at Polly when he put his hat on, and wear it rakishly askew. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
Boru looked up and cocked one ear rakishly, as though he thoroughly enjoyed the joke. From Wordnik.com. [Phyllis A Twin] Reference
In front of the post office stood a boy with a faded pea-green cap, hung rakishly over one ear. From Wordnik.com. [Rival Pitchers of Oakdale] Reference
Then he adjusted his purple silk waistcoat and picked up his hat and set it rakishly on his head. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
When they arrived, he was lounging, tall, dark, and rakishly handsome, against the front railings. From Wordnik.com. [The Ideal Bride]
But then he was looking up again, himself once more, smiling rakishly as he held up a single finger. From Wordnik.com. [Ilse Witch]
Note: Even an already rakishly handsome volunteer Elks-Lodge bartender can 'buff-up' with this baby. From Wordnik.com. [Real Men Catalogs] Reference
It was parked with the front wheels turned rakishly, and he made note of its distinguishing features. From Wordnik.com. [Born To Run]
New York at eleven and it was well past a hot and beatific noon when they moved rakishly through Pelham. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
The hemline of her dress was cut rakishly high enough to reveal shoes that were completely out of period. From Wordnik.com. [Time Scout]
She was wearing a black vest, white blouse, black sailor cap turned rakishly to one side, oversize glasses. From Wordnik.com. [Ruda Awakening] Reference
There just aren't that many sophisticated, rakishly handsome male stars that are worthy of the Vogue brand. From Wordnik.com. [well...duuuuhhhh!!!!] Reference
The horse's withers were reached and the tassels bobbing rakishly gave a hilarious look to the condemned animal. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
Why are you no longer throwing your scarves carelessly, rakishly over your shoulders, ends trailing in the wind?. From Wordnik.com. [The Smug Tug] Reference
I breathe that sawdust, I linger in it and let it settle on my hat, on the sunglasses perched rakishly on the hat. From Wordnik.com. [outfoxed Diary Entry] Reference
She was gazing back over her furry shoulder with a distinctly come-hither look, and her hips were cocked rakishly. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of the Dissonance]
Kane grinned rakishly, sat forward, and said, George has told me something of the sting you pulled off in Belmont. From Wordnik.com. [The Honor Farm] Reference
His black hair was streaked with gray; his beard, once rakishly braided, was uncombed, and had grown long and scraggly. From Wordnik.com. [The Hand of Chaos]
She carried a parasol of the same color and material as her dress, while her head was crowned with a sweeping, rakishly plumed. From Wordnik.com. [When Dreams Come True] Reference
One small boy half-lay across the table; another stood in his chair, his frayed woolen cap set rakishly back and over one ear. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Robin] Reference
The British actor was wearing a bright red shirt and sported a jaunty hat to offset his rakishly cut moustache and tiny drum ear-rings. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Rylance on tattoos, critics and being crowned king of Broadway] Reference
With his hat tilted rakishly over one eye, and sporting a rather generous mustache, he looked straight out of the pages of a Grey novel. From Wordnik.com. [Zane Grey, Romancing the West]
Aiden T is undeniably caddishly rakishly lovely, but there is something childlike and very sweet about Samuel Barnett as little Mr Millais. From Wordnik.com. [Desperate Romantics] Reference
He's a card, that Mr B M S (rakishly, he did volunteer "to take the midnight feeding."). From Wordnik.com. [Baltiblogs] Reference
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