raffish
/ˈɹæfɪʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.55 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Example Sentences
- "Billie Eilish wants you to know she is in charge, brash and self-assured enough to scrap the raffish image that helped garner her a world of fans in favor of something a little more … adult."
- "The smokers' most raffish outsider, Comstock, appeared to do nothing but smoke; Chris had never seen him inside the building."
- "I had met the man before this in the village, and detested him on sight; there was something indescribably raffish in his looks and ways that raised my gorge; […]"
- "He bowed cordially to the lady in charge of Miss de Barral’s education, whom he saw in the hall engaged in conversation with a very good-looking but somewhat raffish young gentleman."
- "He wore a neat dark overcoat, brown shoes, and a bowler hat rather on one side; his appearance was, in fact, genteel, though his air was a trifle raffish."
- "Altogether the city [Las Vegas] is one of the most amiably raffish communities in the nation—an assembly of glittering chrome and flaming colors by day, a flowering jungle of glowing neon and flashing lights by night."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Old French
Word Breakdown
- Root: raffer
Inflected Forms
more raffish (comparative)
most raffish (superlative)