rakish
adjective
like a rake; dissolute.
rakishly
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a word derived from
rakish.
Example Sentences
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For now the cottages stand idle by the glass-walled motel office and its rakishly tilted roof.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2025
He rakishly referred to himself as “the homeless count.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2022
Gone, for example, were the cream jeans which he bought on sale, intending to wear them rakishly with a navy blazer in the summer, yet ultimately never wore.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 4, 2019
A smoldering cinnamon stick wrapped in an orange peel perches rakishly on the rim of “The John T.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2018
On the threshold, in a white acetate-satin sailor suit, and with a round white cap rakishly tilted over her left: ear, stood Lenina.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
