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raffish
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raff·ish  (rfsh)
adj.
1. Cheaply or showily vulgar in appearance or nature; tawdry.
2. Characterized by a carefree or fun-loving unconventionality; rakish.
[Probably from dialectal raff, rubbish, from Middle English raf, perhaps of Scandinavian origin.]
raffish·ly adv.
raffish·ness n.
raffish [ˈræfɪʃ]
adj
1. careless or unconventional in dress, manners, etc.; rakish
2. tawdry; flashy; vulgar
[see raff]
raffishly  adv
raffishness  n
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Adj.1.raffish - marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat"
jaunty, natty, rakish, dapper, spiffy, spruce, dashing, snappy
fashionable, stylish - being or in accordance with current social fashions; "fashionable clothing"; "the fashionable side of town"; "a fashionable cafe"
2.raffish - marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness; "a cocktail party given by some...raffish bachelors"- Crary Moore
devil-may-care, rakish
unconventional - not conventional or conformist; "unconventional life styles"
raffish
adjective dashing, casual, careless, bohemian, sporty, unconventional, jaunty, disreputable, rakish, devil-may-care He was handsome in a raffish kind of way.
Translations
raffish [ˈræfɪʃ] ADJ → disipado, disoluto
raffish [ˈræfɪʃ] adj (= attractively disreputable) [person] → à l'air canaille
raffish
adj appearance → flott, verwegen; person → flott, verwegen, schnittig; place, behaviour → verwegen, zwielichtig
raffish [ˈræfɪʃ] adj (liter) → dissipato/a
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And another element to him which perhaps should not go unmentioned is his raffishness, if you like, his air of disreputability.
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The gangsterism and boomtown raffishness of Russia are also absent.
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One plausible possibility is her realization by the late 1790s, whilst still writing Lady Susan, that the Augustan verve shown in her earlier work and in this novel was no longer an admirable, desired quality when publication was the objective: raffishness was out of favour, and morality--especially as that concerned the moral behavior of young ladies--was steadily gaining ground.
Lady Susan: a re-evaluation of Jane Austen's epistolary novel by Alexander, Christine; Owen, David / Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal
 
 
 
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