Example Sentences

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The staging may occasionally bring back flashbacks of the Valentine’s Day aisle of your local pharmacy, but the gaudy rakishness seems right at home at the Pantages.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2022

With a larger vehicle’s rakishness writ small—particularly the generous axle-to-dash distance—the CX-3 projects a light, lambent sophistication, fine line, quiet smarts and a refreshing absence of cute.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2016

Henry Dewlip begins as a rakish, well-adjusted bachelor, is misled into sowing his tame oats, and then happily restored to rakishness.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was flamboyant, certainly, Gretchen decided, but he had not that rakishness or arrogance that so often accompanies one who is as smart a dresser as he seemed.

From Violists by McGowan, Richard

She was wholly aware of every inch of her appearance—the shabbiness of her brown Norfolk suit, the rakishness of her boyish brown beaver hat, and the vagabond gloves.

From Seven Miles to Arden by Sawyer, Ruth