Definitions
Stylishly unconventional, carefree, or slightly disreputable.
Word origin
From rake (“man habituated to immoral conduct”) + -ish.
Used in a sentence
“A little later a rakish young workman, with a goatee beard and a swagger, lit his clay pipe at the lamp before descending into the street.”
“[…]Anne, who had dropped into her seat, gasping for breath, with a forgotten lily wreath hanging askew over one ear and giving her a particularly rakish and disheveled appearance.”
“[…] the rakish Dennis Quaid, a Houston native who is moving to Texas in a couple of years and wants it to become "the new Hollywood."”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Jaunty”6 letters
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