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Rakishness

noun
1.
The quality of a rake.
2.
Stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance.  Synonyms: dapperness, jauntiness, nattiness.





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"Rakishness" Quotes from Famous Books



... by this unexpected note of Irish in the long, long symphony of Scotch, charged our glasses with gusto. I sipped, death in my heart, and rakishness in my face and gesture. Mr Brindley raised his glass respectfully to Miss Annie Brett, and I did the same. Those two were ...
— The Grim Smile of the Five Towns • Arnold Bennett
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... his brother's opinions. But the greatest charm of the affair for him was really the mild dissipation of leaving his shop and shutting himself up in the little room where the others shouted so loudly, and where Clemence's presence, in his opinion, gave a tinge of rakishness and romance to the proceedings. He now made all haste with his chitterlings in order that he might get away as early as possible, anxious to lose not a single word of the discussions, which seemed to him to be very brilliant, though he was not always able to follow them. The beautiful ...
— The Fat and the Thin • Emile Zola
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Words linked to "Rakishness" :   chic, rakish, smartness, chichi, last word, swank, stylishness, dissoluteness, self-gratification, chicness, modishness, incontinence


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