rakishness
- a word derived from rakish.
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
Henry asked, instantly perturbed and made self-conscious by the doggishness, the waggishness, the rakishness, of Foxall's tone.
From A Great Man A Frolic by Bennett, Arnold
An air of rakishness which was increased by his speech, which was rattled out in a sort of Franco-Alsatian patois.
From The Memoirs of General Baron De Marbot by Colt, Oliver C.
