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Meanings of rakish in English
Marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness.
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Examples for "dashing"
Examples for "dashing"
1
War today, Kane, isn't won by romantic animals dashing at forlorn hopes.
2
I look older every year, but you're still pretty dashing, you know.
3
Families are dashing about like chickens, trying to hide food and animals.
4
Goodness me, that's not the dashing young officer I used to know.
5
Come quick! Solandia's second daughter Neladia came dashing in, then ran out.
1
Yet, the burden will be on government to spruce up education first.
2
Good for a multitude of uses, spruce boughs also make great snowshoes.
3
And he would point to the lonely grave under the guardian spruce.
4
The collision system has also been given a bit of a spruce.
5
Brooks says common resident in the spruce zone on the Coast Range.
1
The line above comes from the jaunty Matrimony; such an old-fashioned word.
2
The feeling in the court next morning was good tempered, even jaunty.
3
But the ice-boat was as fearless and as gaily jaunty as Siegfried.
4
The jaunty music appears to be pointing us in a jokey direction.
5
She was even jaunty in her recital of the weather's minor hardships.
1
They write short snappy, songs that get directly to the point: Girls.
2
Great, now she probably had a reputation for being snappy and emotional.
3
Another glossy, snappy, remake-friendly French comedy with a light but sturdy concept.
4
The script by Kevin Hench actually has a lot of snappy dialogue.
5
But at least it works on telly, because it's short and snappy.
1
Unhappily, she answered in French some simple query of the dapper officer's.
2
The men around me were clean and dapper to a remarkable degree.
3
Always this dapper little man, with the violets and the simpering smile.
4
There the startlingly agile dapper figure struggled to throw off his captor.
5
He was in his early to mid-forties, small, dapper and prematurely gray.
1
William found a natty young Negro smoking from a long cigarette holder.
2
But everything about the rig was fresh and natty, in the sunshine.
3
The sight of the natty bedroom across the way moved Desmond strangely.
4
Men in natty suits surveyed the scene, pleased with the excellent turnout.
5
The man's hair was pulled back in a natty, almost prim ponytail.
1
There's a lot more to it than a spiffy new box, however.
2
But at least you'll have this spiffy Run Free 2013 sticker, anyway.
3
And this won't be the company's last foray into spiffy data visualization.
4
There was even time to feel bad about my formerly spiffy convertible.
5
He'd imagined her arriving in a limo, or some spiffy rental car.
1
There's also that raffish wink at the end of the first stanza.
2
Reg Rogers channels the out-of-control John Barrymore as Julie's raffish brother Tony.
3
But then, on the other hand, I don't want to be raffish.
4
In 1990, this jeans-clad group of purported raffish outcasts earned seventeen million dollars.
5
It was more glittering, more raffish, more clamant of the tenderloin than ever.
Usage of rakish in English
1
No ragamuffin was ever so tattered and torn as this rakish individual.
2
Ambrose knew the runner by his rakish, broad-brimmed hat and flying sash.
3
She smiled cheerily at him and he swung his rakish hat low.
4
He tilted his white hat to a rakish angle and marched away.
5
He looked rakish and wretched as he bumped about upon his mule.
6
A black patch over one eye gave him a fearfully rakish look.
7
On her brow he placed a tinsel crown at a rakish angle.
8
Which rakish seafarer was played by Johnny Depp in the Pirates films?
9
He was a romantic after all, not so rakish as she'd imagined.
10
That was Teddy, a rakish sorrel that had never yet been ridden.
11
A rakish grin transformed him from darkly mysterious recluse to triumphant seducer.
12
He's also thin, medium build with rakish red hair and sunken cheeks.
13
They gave the woman a rakish air, and I wanted to laugh.
14
How was he to sever his frail skiff from that rakish privateer?
15
He fits the top hat on his head at a rakish angle.
16
I saw a skull, lolling at a rakish angle in the nets.
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United Kingdom
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