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raffish

/raf-ish/US // ˈræf ɪʃ //UK // (ˈræfɪʃ) //

拉斐尔,拉斐尔的,拉尔夫,拉斐尔语

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : mildly or sometimes engagingly disreputable or nonconformist: a matinee idol whose raffish offstage behavior amused millions.
    • : gaudily vulgar or cheap; tawdry.

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Examples

  • Visiting him in his room at the raffish Chelsea Hotel, I noticed that there was a crumpled cigarette package under the bed.

  • If they could do that, need they ever have shot that raffish old lord—I beg pardon, my dear—your highly respected grandfather?

  • Although the raffish peer denied all complicity, he did not come out of the business too well.

  • I was getting as bad as Renner—looking lecherously at the raffish display of shapely leg as the blond bombshell beat it.

  • But the muslin curtains, tied back with raffish pink bows, had really worried her most of all.

  • Raffish party too, spy and conspirator persuasion, that sort of thing.