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    rakish


    1. had a rakish body that also looked comfortable so I knew that they probably were already sold on comfort and style


    2. Lady Jane, mumbling incoherently in a shocked daze, still knelt by her husband’s side as she struggled with great difficulty to calm him and reposition him in the toppled wheelchair; her hair continually blowing delicately in the wind that now managed to skew her hat at a rakish angle


    3. Sitting in a Louis XV-style chair with her back to the door, Lady Jane, whom he saw first, immediately turned towards the disruption, her eyes filled with horror and shock bordering on intense fear at having been discovered, though her mouth was pursed in a fine line; her expression suddenly changed to outrage and anger upon recognizing Feltus, and she sprung from her chair, jarring her hat so that it tilted at a rakish angle, to rush towards him


    4. Two of her four funnels were removed, and the other two given a rakish German look


    5. Had he more time, he would have liked to have examined it in more detail, for he admired the rakish, half moon like wings and the tiny bubble canopy, and the apparent anti-radar surface features on the body of the vehicle


    6. The drive section had four wings which tapered off in a rakish way and supported the four warp nacelles


    7. He had always been in love with its sleek, rakish look; it appeared as if it were floating in mid air


    8. He planted it on his head at a rakish angle, adjusted the scarf that was half-covering his face, and turned on the ignition before doing a quick check of the instruments


    9. placed it at a rakish angle on his shaven head


    10. There was something rakish about their appearance

    11. Wood or plastic; a loden coat or digital camouflage; a rakish hat decorated with chamois hair, or a baseball cap with a skull-and-crossbones; they're all the same: whatever we choose, we can still be ethical, successful hunters


    12. A little later a rakish young workman with a goatee beard and a swagger lit his clay pipe at the lamp before descending into the street


    13. Young Swinton was, to say the truth of him, a fine bold rattling lad, warm in the temper, and ready with the hand, and no man’s foe so much as his own; for he was a spoiled bairn, through the partiality of old Lady Bodikins, his grandmother, who lived in the turreted house at the town-end, by whose indulgence he grew to be of a dressy and rakish inclination, and, like most youngsters of the kind, was vain of his shames, the which cost Mr Pittle’s session no little trouble


    14. He was off instantly at a smart walk; the rigid straddle of his legs, the turned-out feet, the stiff back, the rakish slant of the sombrero above the square, motionless set of the shoulders expressing an infinite, awe-inspiring impudence


    15. His stiff jeans, with the bottoms turned up eight inches to show his heeled boots, his three-inch belt with copper figures on it, even the red arm bands on his blue shirt and the rakish angle of his Stetson hat could not build him up to his brother’s stature; for his brother had killed a man, and no one would ever forget it


    16. Charley’s combed columns of legs were noble things, his cap of silver blue fur was rakish, and he carried the pompom of his tail like the baton of a bandmaster


    17. A little later a rakish young workman, with a goatee beard and a swagger, lit his clay pipe at the lamp before descending into the street


    18. She was black hulled, and with a rakish rig that gave her the appearance of being a fast sailer


    19. He left her a shade graver than he found her, but she only came to appreciate his considerateness when other men pranced in, assumed easy positions, talked jauntily about their blighted state and made more or less rakish proposals


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    Synonyms for "rakish"

    devil-may-care raffish rakish dapper dashing jaunty natty snappy spiffy spruce

    "rakish" definitions

    marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners


    marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness