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Raffish

Raffish meaning

Characterized by careless unconventionality; rakish. | Low-class; disreputable; vulgar.

Example sentences (3)

Her raffish Midwestern look contrasted bracingly with the restrictively tailored, often corseted look of her time.

The people are booted and suited, and seem to represent a lost tribe of raffish survivors – ‘The Crust on its Uppers’.

For example, "lace-curtain Irish" refers to middle-class Irish Americans desiring assimilation into mainstream society in counterpoint to the older, more raffish "shanty Irish".