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Raffish
Raffish meaning
Characterized by careless unconventionality; rakish. | Low-class; disreputable; vulgar.
Synonyms of Raffish
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".