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rakish
1[ rey-kish ]
rakish
1/ ˈreɪkɪʃ /
adjective
- dissolute; profligate
rakish
2/ ˈreɪkɪʃ /
adjective
- dashing; jaunty
a hat set at a rakish angle
- nautical (of a ship or boat) having lines suggestive of speed
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Derived Forms
- ˈrakishly, adverb
- ˈrakishness, noun
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Other Words From
- rakish·ly adverb
- rakish·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of rakish1
Origin of rakish2
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Example Sentences
Like Uranus itself, its moons are tilted at a rakish, 98-degree angle.
The Daily Beast’s portrait of Gaetz as a man-about-town is less rakish than sleazy.
Last of Robin Hood also centers on a young woman who falls for a rakish older movie star.
The prince was rakish and clever and yes, even charming at times.
Sometimes his leather jackets were sporty and rakish, at others they were sculpted into prim, hourglass shapes.
It was a little on one side and gave the good clergyman a decidedly rakish appearance.
It sat on one side of her ill-kept head, giving her a singularly rakish and definite appearance.
He is a rakish looking fellow, dressed in smart but cheap clothing.
Captain Smith and his men knew who manned those long, low, rakish-looking frigates.
He even sought an interview with Pappoose and asked her to describe the rakish traveler who had so unfavorably impressed her.
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