Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The aspect of a rakish vessel.
- noun The character of being rakish or dissolute; dissoluteness.
- noun Jauntiness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being rakish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The property of being
rakish .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance
- noun the quality of a rake
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Examples
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I tell him he is as fickle as the winds, and as uncertain as the waves.”] [Footnote 77: We observe here, as in other parts of his early letters, that sort of display and boast of rakishness which is but too common a folly at this period of life, when the young aspirant to manhood persuades himself that to be profligate is to be manly.
Life of Lord Byron Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852 1854
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Got to be said though, I'll always have a soft spot for the show for the scene in the second ? series where "the rakish one from Armstrong and Miller" comes up against a "future Predator" armed only with his rakishness, cunning, and automatic weapons.
Grace Dent's TV OD 2011
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Dan Neil/The Wall Street Journal It has something of a rising accent line on the side but that bit of rakishness is overpowered by the absolutely horizontal roof.
Drive a Big Box 2011
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The Quest has something of a rising accent line on the side but that bit of rakishness is overpowered by the absolutely horizontal roof, like Boris Karloff's flattop.
For Your Big-Box Shopping, Drive a Big Box Dan Neil 2011
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My friends liked him, despite his politics and rakishness, and so did I.
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And yet, something about his rakishness was completely sincere.
AMERICAN SUBVERSIVE DAVID GOODWILLIE 2010
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And the fading film star deciphers a fresh paradise where he can practice his aging rakishness.
The Pirate's Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson: Questions 2007
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Its musicality, its meter, its rhyme, its alliteration all work hand in hand with the absurdly outrageous hyperbole and the cut throat rakishness of its intentions.
The Reading : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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The last, one-tier-wonder thing is a marvel of rakishness!
Love is in the Air... Jen 2009
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I admire the steadfastness of Aung San Suu Kyi, the prolificacy of Stephen King, the single-mindedness of the Dalai Lama, the insight of Susan Sontag, the rakishness of Clive Owen.
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