raffish

How To Use raffish In A Sentence

• It entails boy's-adventure jolliness, raffish character comedy, social satire, dialect humor, maybe-metaphorical farce, a parody of morbidly sentimental verse. Books on Southern Humor
• Head into the wooded foothills to Badenweiler, a spa town with that mix of classical gentility, raffishness and effusive horticulture that marks the better thermal spots.
• The city tumbles down the steep slopes to the river's edge where it coalesces into a raffish assortment of bars, cafes and restaurants housed in tottering waterfront terraces.
• There were many people who disliked Charles and who made unsavoury insinuations about his private life, but Maria knew that behind the raffish exterior existed a tender, sensitive man.
• The French customs formalities had delayed her only a minute or so, mostly taken up with a stylish piece of ogling from a raffish-looking douanier who wielded the chalk of his species, with, Arabella thought, unusual panache. Salvage for the Saint
• At times, according to historical reports, the concert venues had the raffish air of a beer hall.
• In its heyday, the Review enjoyed a reputation as an obtuse and nearly unreadable but authoritative publication put together by a sometimes raffish staff.
• Hope Street, though charmingly raffish, was a far cry from Blenheim Road. RESCUING ROSE
• I adopted a raffish and enigmatic smile and shrugged.
• He's very sexy, with heavy-lidded bedroom eyes and a raffish swagger.