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Definitions
Stylishly disreputable or roguishly unconventional.
Word origin
From late 18th century raff (“persons among the lowest class in society”) + -ish, still retained in contemporary English with riffraff. From Old French raffer (“to wear away”), of Germanic origin. Compare German raffen. Compare rip (“to tear”), rap (“to snatch”).
Used in a sentence
“Billie Eilish wants you to know she is in charge, brash and self-assured enough to scrap the raffish image that helped garner her a world of fans in favor of something a little more … adult.”
“The smokers' most raffish outsider, Comstock, appeared to do nothing but smoke; Chris had never seen him inside the building.”
“I had met the man before this in the village, and detested him on sight; there was something indescribably raffish in his looks and ways that raised my gorge; […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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