rakish
IPA: rˈeɪkɪʃ
adjective
- Dashingly, carelessly, or sportingly unconventional or stylish; jaunty; characterized by a devil-may-care unconventionality; having a somewhat disreputable quality or appearance.
- (dated) Like a rake; dissolute; profligate.
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Examples of "rakish" in Sentences
- Where's his rakish hat
- He drives like a rakish man.
- The cab front was set at a rakish angle.
- I think it's kind of rakish--looks like he's winking.
- He has a shy winning smile, a lanky frame and rakish hair.
- They're not asking me to come because of my charm or rakish wit.
- Her peace and quietness was one day disturbed by the rakish Lord Damerel.
- Apart from being lighter, this also gave the cap a rakish, elegant appearance.
- His wavy black hair is partly covered by a black hat tipped at a rakish angle.
- They were installed simply to lift the tail of the car for a rakish appearance.
- The Tru 140S is a rakish, front-drive car in the Japanese/Korean "Fast and Furious" mode.
- It turned out looking kind of rakish and cheerful and rather like how I like to think of myself.
- My insistence that my haircuts are in some capacity 'rakish' no matter what anybody (chotbot) says.
- My wife, who has impeccable taste, loves me in the top hat and commented that it was both "handsome" and "rakish" upon me.
- It's not that hard to imagine him in the part -- Reynolds had the kind of rakish charm that Harrison Ford ultimately brought to the role.
- It's because of Jesus that I stand here today, quot; the tall, rakish 50 year old said to a large dinner crowd gathered at Victory Church.
- The exterior styling changes are so subtle as to be subliminal: some character lines here and there, a narrowed stare from upswept headlamps, a slightly more rakish windshield.
- Honda The exterior styling changes are so subtle as to be subliminal: some character lines here and there, a narrowed stare from upswept headlamps, a slightly more rakish windshield.
- She laughed, standing as cool as you please, very grateful to the eye in tussore coat and skirt, with open-necked blouse, and some kind of rakish hat displaying her thick auburn hair in defiance of the fashion which decreed concealment even of eyebrows with flower-pot head gear.