rakish

• Unable to bear this pale shadow of his vibrant Emily, he shut himself in the study, immersing himself in Winthrop Shipping business with an enthusiasm that made his father seem a rakish wastrel. —  Teresa Medeiros - Once An Angel
• The best cable dramas have a deep bench, and on this show, Sedgwick is supported by an able cast, especially Simmons, Michael Paul Chan as Lt. Tao and G.W. Bailey as the rakish Lt. Provenza.
• Dhirendra, known for his rakish ways, had divorced his wife for another woman, for which the king punished him by stripping him of his prince title. —  India eNews
• And a very handsome, rakish, and formidable craft she looked, as she lay alongside the quay, her enormously long and delicately-tapering masts towering high above the warehouse roof; her wide-spreading yards, extending far over the quay, accurately squared; her standing and running rigging as taut and straight as iron bars; her ten long nine-pounders grinning beneath her triced-up port-lids; her brightly-polished brass long eighteen-pounder mounted upon her forecastle; her spacious deck scraped and scoured until it was as white as snow; and her new copper and her black topsides gleaming and shimmering in the gently-rippling tide. —  The Log of a Privateersman
• But the snake goes in for extravagance in ribs and vertebrć; an eccentric, rakish, and improper proceeding; part of an irregular and raffish life. —  The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly

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