raffish
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9.3
- adjective
- /ˈræfɪʃ/
:
descarado
- Probably for most of his viewers, Goya stands somewhat in shadow, neither basking in the spotlight reserved for the tortured but raffish artists of Hollywood's imagination nor bathed in the cooler light of academic scholarship.
- raffish look
Examples
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The artist's raffish charm attracted a diverse group of admirers at the gallery.
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But this one was raffish, excessive, and totally alive.
Fiction book (1998) -
He, by contrast, looked raffish and unkempt.
Fiction book (1994) -
He's just raffish.
Fiction book (1990) -
Ed had always been an admirer of Jack London, and not only of The Call of the Wild; besides, the animal had a raffish, awkward look: no pretentious name from history or mythology would do.
Fiction book (1992) -
How are you?" The speaker was in his forties, an attractive-looking man with a black eye patch that gave him the raffish look of an amiable pirate.
Fiction book (1998) -
Her raffish style, with mismatched clothes and wild hair, made her stand out in the crowd.
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Despite his raffish demeanor, he had a way of drawing people in with his carefree attitude.
Synonyms
4
8.1
Not caring about danger or the bad results of actions
4
8.4
Having a smart, lively, and slightly bold look or manner
Antonyms
How Raffish
- Literature
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8.4
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9.3
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6.7
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6.2
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2.9
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Raffish probably comes from an old word raff meaning 'riffraff' or 'rough crowd', and it is related to the familiar word riffraff. So a raffish person has a slightly bad or careless style that people still find strangely attractive, which explains the modern meaning.