[ US /ˈɹɪˌfɹæf/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈɪfɹæf/ ]
NOUN
  1. disparaging terms for the common people
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How To Use riffraff In A Sentence

  • Riffraff of the riffraff are his friends now, same as they were here. The Conquest of Canaan
  • I resent being called riffraff because I go to a casino. SeMissourian.com Headlines
  • They usually fed along the alley ways, since they were highways for the city's riffraff and homeless - usually easy prey.
  • They complained that their beautiful street would be ruined by the kind of riffraff that had to live in a single room for weekly rent. A Red Death
  • If we can do a bulk would we be looking at the same cost per unit as the blues? on October 2, 2008 at 9: 28 pm | Reply dungfox ship the mugs in puffed up discarded police emails processed as paper mache [z] that can be sat on by a local riffraff, or rolled up discarded daily wails, duly rolled up with lots of [hot air] and knotted so that they accept the shock of being dropped of thy local church steeple, if want proof of beeing shippable, saves plastic.dungbeetle. on October 5, 2008 at 10: 41 am | Reply exRUCtion Call The Fashion Police « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • True, but think how much better off we are now that our universities accept "riffraff" such as women, the poor, and the non-white. David Weinberger: Andrew Keen's Best Case
  • And to top it all off, they're so incompetant at keeping out the "riffraff" that they let the most famous atheist in the world in! Creationism and Censorship
  • I think the Campbells using the term riffraff (one word by the way) was unfortunate, because from context they mean criminals and the term riffraff has additional social class connotations that are inappropriate. New Haven Independent
  • Many landlords, rich peasants and riffraff have seized the opportunity to sneak into our Party.
  • The street had apparently at one time been one of some pretensions, but had now fallen upon evil days and become the abode of a number of petty tradesmen, such as cobblers, sellers of fruit and cheap drinks, dealers in second-hand goods of every description, and riffraff generally. Two Gallant Sons of Devon A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess
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