Rakish
['reɪkɪʃ] or ['rekɪʃ]
Definition
(a.) Dissolute; lewd; debauched.
(a.) Having a saucy appearance indicative of speed and dash.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Lewd, debauched, dissolute, licentious.
Editor: Xenia
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Licentious, dissolute, wanton, lewd, loose,[See BOUNDLESS]
Typist: Marion
Examples
- Sometimes she sat among the louts in the cinema: rakish-looking, unattractive louts they were. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There was a rakish, vagabond smartness, and a kind of boastful rascality, about the whole man, that was worth a mine of gold. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- 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. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- But a little rakish, hey? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The same secret seemed to be working in the souls of all alike, Gudrun, Palmer, the rakish young bloods, the gaunt, middle-aged men. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Typist: Marion