raffish

• In a raffish, theatrical kind of fashion he looked extremely impressive. —  Death In Ecstasy - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 04: 1936
• Besides, while he had made friends high in its life, as well as among the low and raffish -- with whom he generally felt easier -- he had also made enemies of either kind. —  F ;SF; - vol 101 issue 04-05 - October-November 2001
• Chaplin was primarily a singer of comic songs of ordinary life, and promotional song sheets show him as a raffish chap, with shiny top hat and coat or light breezy jacket, amid vignettes of champagne bottles and revellers out for the night with the words: "Off to the Moulin Rouge." —  Film | guardian.co.uk
• It is by way of repudiating any suggestion of bunions that the eagle adopts a raffish, off-hand, chickaleary sort of roll in the gait, so that altogether, especially as viewed from behind, a walking eagle has an appearance of perpetually knocking 'em in the Old Kent Road. —  The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
• Even to the clerk's own disturbed imagination the establishment had suddenly grown raffish, and its dingy paint and drab upholstery resembled the make-up and cloak of a scowling tragedian A strong-armed workman came joyously. —  One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York

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