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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat" [syn: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy, spruce]
2: marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness; "a cocktail party given by some...raffish bachelors"- Crary Moore [syn: devil-may-care, raffish, rakish]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1796 1. marked by or suggestive of flashy vulgarity or crudeness 2. marked by a careless unconventionality ; rakish • raffishly adverb • raffishness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 disreputable; rakish. 2 tawdry. Derivatives: raffishly adv. raffishness n. Etymology: as RAFT(2) + -ISH(1)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Raffish Raff"ish, a. Resembling, or having the character of, raff, or a raff; worthless; low. A sad, raffish, disreputable character. --Thackeray.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Raffish people and places are not very respectable but are attractive and stylish in spite of this. (WRITTEN) He was handsome in a raffish kind of way... ADJ: usu ADJ n

Moby Thesaurus

boorish, carlish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, devil-may-care, fast, gay, hooliganish, loobyish, loutish, lubberly, lumpish, rakehell, rakish, roughneck, rowdy, rowdyish, ruffianly, sporty, yokelish