How To Use Raffish In A Sentence
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Ondine's had the reputation of being both smart and raffish, lavish and louche at the same time as rigidly exclusive.
THE WHITE DOVE
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Others might regard him as a conscienceless, borderline psychopath, and the riveting central performance by Rhys Ifans, who plays Marks as a charming, raffish boyo from the Welsh valleys, doesn't wholly preclude such an interpretation.
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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.
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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
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At times, according to historical reports, the concert venues had the raffish air of a beer hall.
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In its heyday, the Review enjoyed a reputation as an obtuse and nearly unreadable but authoritative publication put together by a sometimes raffish staff.
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Hope Street, though charmingly raffish, was a far cry from Blenheim Road.
RESCUING ROSE
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I adopted a raffish and enigmatic smile and shrugged.
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He's very sexy, with heavy-lidded bedroom eyes and a raffish swagger.
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A war hero with raffish good looks, he had all the personal attributes to make a successful match, and Elizabeth was clearly attracted to him.
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In the southern chain of small islands, Cooper Island has a raffish charm.
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He extinguishes his cigarette, buttons up his raffish crushed velvet overcoat and volleys wide from eight or nine yards.
Manchester United v Crystal Palace
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But with the great influence of Lixue, there was a morality utmost when they published novels. They didn't publish the Jinpingmei and other salable raffish novels.
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In the 18 months since his diagnosis with oesophageal cancer, Christopher lost his beautiful voice, his raffish air, his optimism and swagger.
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I suggested "The King's Speech," and, not wanting to spoil it with too many details, gave a shorthand description: Colin Firth as King George VI, who has a terrible stutter, and Geoffrey Rush as a raffish Australian speech therapist.
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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.
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A mustachioed man in a pullover meets a wavy-haired blonde to produce a figure with an oddly raffish cavalier look; a middle-aged woman with a complex hairdo acquires the aquiline nose of the actor she obscures.
Brian Dillon on John Stezaker at the Whitechapel Gallery
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a cocktail party given by some...raffish bachelors
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The influence of symbolic sculpting, western pop art sculpting and raffish sculpting along with cartoon style sculpting has also had a negative impact on the development of modern Chinese sculpting.
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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.
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These things look great fun to fly - their pilots wave from open cockpits and wiggle their wings raffishly - but they look as graceful and congruous as goats on skateboards.
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The past few years have seen Daniel Sinsel discard hia dark enchantment with male porn stars: black-eyed young men who gazed from his canvases like raffish Pans with a taste for S&M.
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He was fortyish, divorced and good-looking in a slightly raffish sort of way.
YELLOW BIRD
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The parents of these churlish, raffish youths should be held responsible.
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He certainly has the right kind of presence, raffish and raddled, teasing and terrorising.
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Yorkshire's most famous soul singer has matured into a handsome, outwardly respectable middle-aged man with a raffish undertow.
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Something of the devotion of the parents is clearly visible here, as well as the almost raffish informality of the Australian golden boy and heir to Kilmany Park and Craigellachie.
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There seemed something raffish and ungentlemanly about dealing in used cars, at least to the members of the court.
TANK OF SERPENTS
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40 Poems, ballads, and images suggested an American picaro, a raffish trickster and canny businessman, whose slick tongue and sharp wit made him impossible to trust fully.
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It entails boy's-adventure jolliness, raffish character comedy, social satire, dialect humor, maybe-metaphorical farce, a parody of morbidly sentimental verse.
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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.
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The Bahamas' capital, with its large, sheltered harbour, has swung many times from boomtown to backwater and back again in its rather raffish past.
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Artists and antique dealers have moved in, giving the neighbourhood a raffish bohemian energy.
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As a child swot, though, I felt a responsibility to my family to enter a "respectable" profession I dutifully studied law but found journalism's raffish camaraderie more accommodating.
Back to the land: from London to sheep farming on Eigg
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Less tightly wound and introspective than his brother, Harry prefers to present a raffish, happy-go-lucky attitude.
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The yo-ho-ho swashbuckling in the film drew comparisons with Errol Flynn, but Bloom's territory is not raffish seduction.
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Artists enjoy seeing themselves as raffish outsiders, people of dubious morality.
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Finally there is raffish Uncle Roy of the 13th Hussars, with his moustaches, bow tie, and pumps, looking somehow prematurely older than he should.
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The parents of these churlish, raffish youths should be held responsible.
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A one-time fishing village, it has a beat-up, raffish looking downtown surrounded by new, big marinas.
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There’s a lot of good info here, though I did want to let you know something – I am running Ubuntu with the up-to-date beta of FireFox, and the design of your site is kind of raffish for me.
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He is an engaging man, with a raffish grin.
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He had a cosmopolitan, slightly raffish air.
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Even the raffish collection of outsiders that have washed up there seem part of the patchwork.
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Yorkshire's most famous soul singer has matured into a handsome, outwardly respectable middle-aged man with a raffish undertow.
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Less tightly wound and introspective than his brother, he prefers to present a raffish, happy-go-lucky attitude.
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For he was perfectly correct - Amanda Cynster stood in no danger from the raffish Earl of Dexter.
ON A WILD NIGHT
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He's still drainpipe thin, official rock legend dimensions, although his nervy stare is now crowned by a raffish swoop of snowy grey where a slick black executive crewcut once sat.
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Brighton, on the south coast and one hour by train from London, is the most raffish, louche and exciting of British seaside towns.
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He was handsome in a raffish kind of way.
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Suntanned from riding on his motorcycle, his hair longer than before and distinctly raffish, he didn't look much like the well-groomed man who'd hung around for Liza's birth.