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raffish

adjective

1 raffish

Marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners.

synonyms: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, rakish, snappy, spiffy, spruce.

Roget 876: ignoble, common, mean, low, base, vile, sorry, scrubby, beggarly; below par; no great shakes etc. (unimportant) 643; ... show more

2 raffish

Marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness:
— A cocktail party given by some...raffish bachelors.

synonyms: devil-may-care, rakish.


Moby thesaurus: boorish, carlish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, devil-may-care, fast, gay, hooliganish, loobyish, loutish, lubberly, lumpish, rakehell, rakish, roughneck, rowdy, rowdyish, ruffianly, sporty ... show more.

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