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synonyms for rakish

  • dashing
  • jaunty
  • profligate
  • raffish
  • saucy
  • sporty
  • abandoned
  • chic
  • debauched
  • depraved
  • devil-may-care
  • dissipated
  • dissolute
  • fashionable
  • fast
  • flashy
  • gay
  • lecherous
  • licentious
  • loose
  • natty
  • prodigal
  • sinful
  • smart
  • wanton
  • wild
On this page you'll find 50 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to rakish, such as: dashing, jaunty, profligate, raffish, saucy, and sporty.

antonyms for rakish

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  • clean
  • moral
  • upright
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How to use rakish in a sentence

Like Uranus itself, its moons are tilted at a rakish, 98-degree angle.
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The Daily Beast’s portrait of Gaetz as a man-about-town is less rakish than sleazy.
MATT GAETZ GETS HEADLINES FOR THE SCANDALS. HE SHOULD WORRY ABOUT THE RECEIPTSPHILIP ELLIOTTAPRIL 2, 2021TIME
It was a little on one side and gave the good clergyman a decidedly rakish appearance.
THE CAMPFIRE GIRLS OF ROSELAWNMARGARET PENROSE
It sat on one side of her ill-kept head, giving her a singularly rakish and definite appearance.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON
He is a rakish looking fellow, dressed in smart but cheap clothing.
THE DIAMOND COTERIELAWRENCE L. LYNCH
Captain Smith and his men knew who manned those long, low, rakish-looking frigates.
HISTORIC ADVENTURESRUPERT S. HOLLAND
He even sought an interview with Pappoose and asked her to describe the rakish traveler who had so unfavorably impressed her.
WARRIOR GAPCHARLES KING
But if I should, Jack, (with the strongest antipathy to the state that ever man had,) what a figure shall I make in rakish annals?
CLARISSA, VOLUME 6 (OF 9)SAMUEL RICHARDSON
She was young, not much over twenty, was tolerably well dressed, and wore a derby hat with a decidedly rakish air.
SHADOW, THE MYSTERIOUS DETECTIVEPOLICE CAPTAIN HOWARD
But the rakish-looking steamer continued on her course, while the Bellevite had not moved since the first broadside.
WITHIN THE ENEMY'S LINESOLIVER OPTIC
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WORDS RELATED TO RAKISH

  • bandbox
  • brisk
  • chic
  • chichi
  • classy
  • clean
  • dainty
  • dashing
  • doggy
  • dressed to kill
  • dressed to nines
  • jaunty
  • natty
  • nice
  • nifty
  • nimble
  • nobby
  • posh
  • prim
  • rakish
  • ritzy
  • sassy
  • sharp
  • showy
  • smart
  • snazzy
  • snug
  • spiffy
  • spruce
  • spry
  • stylish
  • swank
  • swanky
  • swell
  • trim
  • turned out
  • well-turned-out
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