Example Sentences

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She was mesmerized by the smooth-talking Sonny, who raffishly claimed to be a descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte.

From Salon • Nov. 23, 2024

In an earlier biography, Paul Willetts chronicled the life of mid-20th-century England’s most raffishly bohemian writer, Julian MacLaren-Ross.

From Washington Post • Aug. 8, 2018

In the image, Breitbart is dressed, raffishly, in a dark blazer and white button-down, his chest hair exposed; it looks as if he’s making a point, or about to, and raising an index finger.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2017

And it’s true that “The Master of Disaster”, as essayed by Carl Weathers from Rockies I-IV, was a raffishly charismatic foil to the “Italian Stallion”.

From The Guardian • Nov. 24, 2015

Her mop of iron-grey hair was parted, on the side like a man’s, raffishly, and she made as if to plunge her fork into it, as she used to do with the knitting-needle, but refrained. 

From 'Twixt Land and Sea by Conrad, Joseph