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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

"I asked her about you—over the garden-wall; so don't get jealous," Drake said with his look of wise rakishness.

From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by MacKenzie, Compton

He must have led a psalm-singing youth that every attempt at rakishness should make him as piquant as a figure at a masque.

From Montlivet by Smith, Alice Prescott