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Meanings of riffraff in English
Synonyms
Examples for "rabble"
Examples for "rabble"
1
Ask the rabble which they want: a bitter yellow powder or war.
2
Savitsky informed them of the nature of the rabble ahead of us.
3
What depths of cruelty and obscenity it revealed in the Parisian rabble.
4
The wedding procession passed on, and the cynical rabble poured in behind.
5
And yet the rabble and the railway folks have insisted on it.
1
The forces raised by the Council of Mishaka were a ragtag lot.
2
The rest of the ragtag mob was gathered on the shoreline, staring.
3
Their uniforms were mismatched-thebetter to blend in among the planet's ragtag population.
4
Camp Shefflin was the army's ragtag military post on the outside of Monrovia.
5
They think us ordinary bandits, or ragtag remnants of the Republic.
Usage of riffraff in English
1
Apparently, Mr. Windslow will allow any type of riffraff onto his property.
2
It was the Eldest's way of removing the riffraff from our community.
3
And there's a guard outside the door, to keep out the riffraff.
4
They were principally hobos and riffraff, packing their blankets on their backs.
5
No riffraff friend of mine, but a regular NUN- asaint- doyouhear
6
We seen that oldest one skulkin' on the street corners, hangin' with riffraff.
7
And yet, who would ever have thought of Rubin as riffraff?
8
His very name seemed to fill the riffraff of the barroom with courage.
9
He strained eyes and ears for a possible attack from the riffraff I.W.W.
10
They are the only assemblies that please quality and riffraff alike.
11
Take shelter for yourself, and look on whilst we skin this riffraff alive.
12
Across the border they're bandits, some of them, the others just riffraff outlaws.
13
We'll destroy Marsport before we'll give in to a doped-up crowd of riffraff!
14
Even riffraff are hesitant to acknowledge the disgusting specter that haunts their city.
15
I told you I wanted you to kill them, the riffraff.
16
There were hundreds of people ready to know them-butoh, such a riffraff!
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Riffraff across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common