raffish
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One ghost is a raffish Frenchman who exclaims, “quelle horreur!”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
Afterward, he started to communicate with living Redondan notables and to research the micro-nation’s various rival monarchs, including a raffish ship’s captain known as King Bob the Bald.
From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2022
Now combined into a single storefront, the current retail space retains raffish details of its liquor-store days, including a retro red-and-blue neon sign and period gilt window lettering advertising cognacs and cordials.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 28, 2022
Being known as a raffish rule-breaker has always been a key element of Boris Johnson’s political brand.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2022
Tonsures, pigtails, head completely shaved but for a single forelock, long sides drawn into a queue with a raffish short-cut roach in the middle—all of it was prideful and abhorrent to the Pilgrims.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing raffish
A Streetcar Named Desire
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The Once and Future King
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
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