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Meanings of rakish in anglès

Marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners.

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Marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness.

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Usage of rakish in anglès
1
No ragamuffin was ever so tattered and torn as this rakish individual.
Truxton King: A Story of Graustark
2
Ambrose knew the runner by his rakish, broad-brimmed hat and flying sash.
The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest
3
She smiled cheerily at him and he swung his rakish hat low.
Beverly of Graustark
4
He tilted his white hat to a rakish angle and marched away.
Jaffery
5
He looked rakish and wretched as he bumped about upon his mule.
Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales
6
A black patch over one eye gave him a fearfully rakish look.
Anne of the Island
7
On her brow he placed a tinsel crown at a rakish angle.
More William
8
Which rakish seafarer was played by Johnny Depp in the Pirates films?
The Irish Times
9
He was a romantic after all, not so rakish as she'd imagined.
Osprey island
10
That was Teddy, a rakish sorrel that had never yet been ridden.
A Daughter of the Dons: A Story of New Mexico Today
11
A rakish grin transformed him from darkly mysterious recluse to triumphant seducer.
Too wicked to kiss
12
He's also thin, medium build with rakish red hair and sunken cheeks.
The whore of babylon, a memoir
13
They gave the woman a rakish air, and I wanted to laugh.
A duty to the dead
14
How was he to sever his frail skiff from that rakish privateer?
Birds of Prey
15
He fits the top hat on his head at a rakish angle.
Broken angels
16
I saw a skull, lolling at a rakish angle in the nets.
Broken angels
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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