raffishness

Not just watching waves crashing up on the shingle whilst stuffing moules and Kir Royales down in early evening promenade bars, but the whole ambience that comes from that heady cocktail of architectural bon surprise and dodgy raffishness.

Brighton Clock Peter Ashley 2007

Not just watching waves crashing up on the shingle whilst stuffing moules and Kir Royales down in early evening promenade bars, but the whole ambience that comes from that heady cocktail of architectural bon surprise and dodgy raffishness.

Archive 2007-10-01 Peter Ashley 2007

Yet raffishness notwithstanding, the entire visual scheme is as fraught with socioeconomic symbolism as any.

Home Alone 2006

Yet raffishness notwithstanding, the entire visual scheme is as fraught with socioeconomic symbolism as any.

Home Alone 2006

The silkysmooth Gallagher lacks raffishness: it's like a Broadway pastrami sandwich with mayo instead of mustard.

What Becomes A Legend? 2008

As the paper grew, the raffishness waned; for Ms. Dowd's generation, Mr. Gelb's revelations were an astonishment.

Times Building sold: Ghosts, dirt thrown in gratis 2004

It's more fun with nicknames and raffishness and amiable crime.

Damon Runyan: A Life 1991

When worn loose its luxuriance would have given her a gypsy-like raffishness, but now her face, devoid of make-up except for a slash of bright lipstick and drained of animation, looked nakedly vulnerable.

The Murder Room James, P. D. 1988

Although it was probably the grandest hotel Wexford had ever stayed in, the bar was so dark as to imply raffishness or at least that it would be wiser not to see what one was drinking.

Put On By Cunning Rendell, Ruth, 1930- 1981

There was about his gaudy, swaggering raffishness something that the women found singularly alluring.

Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini 1912