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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

Then they were angry, because their assumption of rakishness made no impression, and they did not understand how Addie could flatly admit his innocence and ignorance.

From Small Souls by Couperus, Louis

He assumes an aspect of positive rakishness, and intelligence, so to say, beams from his every limb.

From A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science by Williams, Henry Smith