Rakish meaning

Adjective: rakish

Pronunciation: (rey-kish)

Rakish meaning:

1. Marked by up-to-datedness in dress and manners. Synonyms: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, snappy, spiffy, spruce
2. Marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness. Synonyms: devil may care, raffish

Quotations: Jay Chandrasekhar – I wanted this movie to feel as much as possible like a cousin of Smokey and the Bandit, and Burt Reynolds had that sort of rakish good looks. He did his own stunts, he considered himself sort of a ladies’ man. I feel like Knoxville has a number of those qualities. He’s done so much really funny stuff, he’s Southern; he’s got certain toughness to him.

Lynne Ambrosini – Molly kept house for him when she was older. But when she was younger, she was quite a rakish young woman. She had an affair with a married man in the 1890s that was the talk of Cincinnati.

Michael Sheen – I would like to be taller, thinner and more rakish looking.

Gustav Temple and Vic Darkwood – For too long we have been the playthings of massive corporations, whose sole aim is to convert our world into a gargantuan shopping ‘mall’. Pleasantry and civility are being discarded as the worthless ephemera of a bygone age; an age where men doffed their hats at ladies, and children could be counted on to mind your Jack Russell while you took a mild and bitter in the pub. The twinkly-eyed tobacconist, the ruddy-cheeked landlord and the bewhiskered teashop lady are being trampled under the mighty blandness of ‘drive-thru’ hamburger chains. Customers are herded in and out of such places with an alarming similarity to the way the cattle used to produce the burgers are herded to the slaughterhouse.

The principal victim of this blandification is Youth, whose natural propensity to shun work, peacock around the town and aggravate the constabulary has been drummed out of them. Youth is left with a sad deficiency of joie de vivre, imagination and elegance. Instead, their lives are ruled by territorial one-upmanship based on brands of plimsoll, and Youth has become little more than a walking, barely talking advertising hoarding for global conglomerates.

But now, a spectre is beginning to haunt the reigning vulgarioisie: the spectre of Chappism. A new breed of insurgent has begun to appear on the streets, in the taverns and in the offices of Britain: The Anarcho-Dandyist. Recognisable by his immaculate clothes, the rakish angle of his hat and his subtle rallying cry of “Good day to you sir/ madam!

Sample sentences:

1. I saw a rakish young man.
2. I have attended a cocktail party given by some rakish bachelors.
3. She gave him a rakish smile as he blushed.
4. He neither abandoned gaming nor his rakish life.
5. The knot of his tie was at a rakish angle.
6. I always love to give her a rakish look.
7. She looked stunning with rakish facial hair.
8. Her rakish long fair hair and her booming, burnished voice are seriously awesome.
9. She is reclusive in nature but his rakish and daunting style persuade her to offer him tea.
10. He wore his hat at a rakish angle