Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Nautical Having a trim, streamlined appearance: "We were schooner-rigged and rakish, with a long and lissome hull” ( John Masefield).
- adj. Dashingly or sportingly stylish; jaunty.
- adj. Of the character of a rake; dissolute.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. dashingly, carelessly, or sportingly unconventional or stylish; jaunty; characterized by a devil-may-care unconventionality; having a somewhat disreputable quality or appearance.
- adj. like a rake; dissolute; profligate
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Dissolute; lewd; debauched.
- adj. Having a saucy appearance indicative of speed and dash.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Nautical, having an unusual amount of rake or inclination of the masts, as a vessel. The piratical craft of former times were distinguished for their rakish build.
- Resembling or given to the practices of a rake; given to a dissolute life; lewd; debauched.
- Jaunty.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness
- adj. marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
Etymologies
Examples
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It turned out looking kind of rakish and cheerful and rather like how I like to think of myself.
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I think it's kind of rakish--looks like he's winking.
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My insistence that my haircuts are in some capacity 'rakish' no matter what anybody (chotbot) says.
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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.
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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.
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My wife, who has impeccable taste, loves me in the top hat and commented that it was both "handsome" and "rakish" upon me.
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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.
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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.
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The Tru 140S is a rakish, front-drive car in the Japanese/Korean "Fast and Furious" mode.
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Yet it also had the Hellfire Club, a place frequented by nobles and politicians to carry out rakish and immoral acts.
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