How To Use Rakish In A Sentence
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The galleon was a long slender ship of extremely low freeboard, rakish rigged as a single-master, both sails and oars being used as
The Stamps of Canada
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We were also greeted by a large man in rumpled chef's whites and a rakish black beret, a handkerchief knotted jauntily around his neck.
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But as times and tastes changed, it needed a catalyst to move beyond the shopworn stereotypes of LAPD cops as either by-the-book straight arrows or rakish, rule-breaking mavericks.
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Was that really how I looked, I wondered, how I appeared to others, the gabardine sitting rakishly on the shoulders, the sleeves hanging free?
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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.
The Mountebank
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Indeed, the effect of Cornwallis's kindly but unsmiling expression was much modified because his wig was slightly awry; Cornwallis still affected a horsehair bobwig of the sort that was now being relegated by fashion to noblemen's coachmen, and today it had a rakish cant that dissipated all appearance of dignity.
Hornblower And The Hotspur
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In fact, on several occasions other characters draw attention to his obtuseness: fresh from the country, he is only imperfectly the rakish figure he imitates.
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All the shops fast asleep, with their eyelids closed, that is, their shutters up, all except one establishment, garishly lighted and of defiantly rakish, appearance, with the words
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 5, 1891
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A tall, lithe, rather rakishly clad coatimundi stood nearest the wagon, gesturing animatedly in the merchant's direction with a thin rapier.
The Lives of Felix Gunderson
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When Margaret's marriage to a rakish fashion photographer broke up, she took up with a cad who promptly published a kiss-and-tell book on their affair.
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But he and his wife found something even more elusive: a palpable sense of the rakish adventurousness that prevailed between the world wars.
The World on the Rocks
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The guests at the ball turn in amusing performances, particularly Joseph Caley as the rakish, dry-humoured Adoncino, but the central couple have the best of the choreography.
Birmingham Royal Ballet: Pointes of View
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Maynard Dixon presented a slender, almost angular appearance with deep blue eyes, straight dark hair cascading toward one eye, a rakish mustache, slightly hooked nose, and long, facile hands.
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He wore his cap at a rakish angle.
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I completely agree with this in principle, having done my own tiny share of anorakish fact-checking and dissecting of slipperiness here over the last couple of years (such as this).
Freemania
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He was wearing his hat at a rakish angle.
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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.
A Giant Stumbles
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Huge parking lots, which were fully packed throughout the day with scores of sleek bikes, elegant two-wheelers and rakish cars, stand forlorn and neglected with nothing but tyre tracks and fading oil leaks on the ground.
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Yes, I can just see myself at a home for retired theatricals, beret on at a rakish angle, red shoes, lipstick up to my nose, telling people how fantastic I was at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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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.
Honda's Sporty New Civic, Heavy on the 'Ick'
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Even in an epic length period drama like The Princess of Montpensierwith its sweeping battle scenes and violence, the love the young womanof the title experiences for Henri de Guise Gaspard Ulliel, the rakish heartthrob of her youth is what matters most to director Bertrand Tavernier.
Regina Weinreich: My Rendez-Vous with French Cinema
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Parliamentary propagandists accordingly disseminated an image of the typical cavalier as a rakish individual consumed by the pursuit of illicit pleasure and personal gain, a man devoid of moral principles.
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The woman sitting next to Miss Temple, who had preceded her into the coach, wore a kind of tricorn hat rakishly pinned to her hair, and a thin band of cloth tied over her eyes, quite like a pirate.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
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He wore his cap at a rakish angle.
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He is also under the sway of rakish Colonel Sanderson, whose claims to "biblicism" seem to be of the superficial variety; Mrs. Sanderson, however, evinces considerably more enthusiasm.
The Biblicals
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Her black-velvet hat, with its dejected white plume drooping rakishly over one of her slanting eyes, her imitation-ponyskin coat with its imitation-ermine collar, her cheap black-serge skirt with its undulations half revealing the daintiness of her surprisingly excellent boots -- all struck the watcher anew with their pitiable striving after the prevailing mode in the dress of Occidental women.
Undesirables
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Why had she married this rakish, intemperate man - this man who drank himself to an early demise?
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I think it's kind of rakish--looks like he's winking.
What I cooked last night.
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Instead of a cloak, the thin man wore a short blue cape, which was currently flipped over one shoulder in a rakish fashion.
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There are classical comedies in verse, too, wherein the knavish valets, rakish heroes, stolid old guardians, and smart, free-spoken serving-women, discourse in Alexandrines, as loud as the Horaces or the Cid.
The Paris Sketch Book
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His face has a slightly rakish quality to it, his eyes gleaming with charm, and cunning.
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The addition of a black leather flight jacket made him look like a particularly young and rakish test pilot.
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Rakishly thin, he wore tattered cords that rode half way up his skeleton legs.
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A black, felt bowler sits on his head, tilted slightly forward at a rakish angle.
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He's made it to the top of his profession on his own terms, armed with a sharp intellect, a rakish charm, keen wit and passionate belief in justice.
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His penchant for tall, rakish women and strong, musclebound men is alive and well and still living in New York.
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He propelled me to my brothers and left with a bow and a rakish grin towards me.
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With Blotto, the spaniel who always looked drunk, one rakish red patch over his bloodshot eye.
LOST CHILDREN
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It's a fascinating read, and reveals the extent to which rakish elements amongst landowners and the aristocracy staked huge wagers on the outcome of sporting events.
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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.
Forbes.com: News
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This was one of the fine young rakish fellows from Lunnun as were always swarming about my Lady, like bees over that maybush.
Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume
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The rakish wavy hair, facial scruff rock them, the well-groomed should not.
Second Skin
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Cory shook his head at her, his blond fringe falling over his dark eyes, giving him the rakish look.
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Lee goes to see her twice a week, and on Sunday afternoon takes her out in his new and rakish runabout, that is as modern as his behavior is obsolete.
The Tinder-Box
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He returned my tentative smile with a rakish grin of his own.
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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.
Time to Top Up?
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It is a wonderfully evocative burr, cultured throughout but with the faintest smidgens of rakish raspiness around the edges.
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She smiled up at him, smoothing down the unruly cowlick that rested atop his mop of rakishly tousled brunette hair.
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He was being passed by a youngish woman in khaki slacks and white running shoes and a yellow baseball hat tipped rakishly forward on her head, as if her hair were too bulky, too springy, to fit into it.
The Apparition
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Andrew enjoyed golf and will be remembered for his debonair appearance, particularly the rakish angle of his trilby hat and his cream calfskin gloves.
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Then he smiled for the first time, giving his battered face a handsomely rakish air and shook his head.
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At a glance the long-nosed, low-wing Aztec bore a very strong resemblance to Irv Dunn's departed Twin Bonanza, with the Aztec's more rakish vertical tail a distinguishing feature.
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The station, made famous in the eponymous Oscar-nominated film, was filled with grizzled old men in rakish Panama hats, young Turks in Bermuda shorts and T-shirts, and besuited and bemused commuters.
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Like all gulets, Aleyna is absurdly romantic, with her rakish lines and piratical poop deck, blue canvas awnings and gleaming varnish thick as barley sugar.
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Instead of trying to rebody the Escape as a sleeker, more rakish vehicle,
The Car Connection
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He's made it to the top of his profession on his own terms, armed with a sharp intellect, a rakish charm, keen wit and passionate belief in justice.
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A small smile materialized, making him appear rakish.
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V-shaped openings in front a trifle too deep; many, in their endeavours to make their loose trousers still more rakish, wore them in too flowing a manner over their feet, and still more, in their anxiety not to spoil the set of their jumpers, carried no 'pusser's daggers,' or knives, attached to their lanyards.
Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories
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His rakish good looks were captivating, though there was no warmth in his eyes.
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Its rakish nose and large headlamps give it a sporty look, but the car seems to run out of styling ideas at the back end where the curved side screens give it a droopy appearance.
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Andrew enjoyed golf and will be remembered for his debonair appearance, particularly the rakish angle of his trilby hat and his cream calfskin gloves.
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He had to keep reminding his rakish senses that she was more innocent than her behavior painted her.
ALL ABOUT LOVE
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Her rakish hat slipped backward over the imitation-ermine collar of her imitation-ponyskin coat.
Undesirables
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His face has a slightly rakish quality to it, his eyes gleaming with charm, and cunning.
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Keats might have called it, in the cellar or the back hall, more fully, but not completely, dressed, coatless, our waistcoats rakishly unbuttoned or vulgarly upstairs, our innocent trousers hanging on their gallowses, our shoes on our feet, and our physical activity not altogether unlike that demanded by a home-exerciser to reduce the abdomen.
The Perfect Gentleman
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There was Philippa Mannering looking avid in a beautifully cut check suit and a brown beret at a rakish angle.
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The red of her coat brought out the natural glow of her skin, and a bandage on her temple made her look madcap and rakish.
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She despises George and is diverted by the renewal of her acquaintance with the rakish Judge Brack who offers the possibility of flirting, gossip and intrigue.
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Their heavy woollen shirts crossed by the broad suspenders, the red of their sashes or leather shine of their belts, their short kersey trousers "stagged" off to leave a gap between the knee and the heavily spiked "cork boots" -- all these were distinctive enough of their class, but most interesting to me were the eyes that peered from beneath their little round hats tilted rakishly askew.
Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day
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Actress Frances O'Connor brings a refreshing candour to the most insufferably priggish of all Austen's heroines, Fanny Price, and Alessandro Nivola is irresistibly rakish as her potential beau.
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Tall, with a slightly rakish appearance, as if he'd just flown in from Monte Carlo or Rio or the south of France, Mark Bradshaw turned heads everywhere he went.
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He was wearing his hat at a rakish angle.
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Shortly after leaving our anchorage we passed close to leeward of a long rakish-looking lateener, on board which, as ill-luck would have it, an anchor-watch was being kept.
Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War
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He plays the novel's rakish hero.
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He wore his hat at a rakish angle.
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He wore his hat at a rakish angle.
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He has remarkably bold eyes; rather approaching to what we would call goggling: and he gives himself airs with them as if he wished to have them thought rakish: perhaps as a recom-mendation, in his opinion, to the ladies.
Sir Charles Grandison
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We discern dangling-armed, doll-like Pierrot, the black-masked face and gaudy triangle-patched jumpsuit of Harlequin, the pert topknot of Columbine, the striped jerkin and rakish cowl of Mezzetin.
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Aiden T is undeniably caddishly rakishly lovely, but there is something childlike and very sweet about Samuel Barnett as little Mr Millais.
Desperate Romantics
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Placards not yet on duty are held at a slope, at rakish angles over shoulders.
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There was a rakish, vagabond smartness, and a kind of boastful rascality, about the whole man, that was worth a mine of gold.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
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Beneath the coat he wore a green shirt with the top three buttons opened, revealing a chest of tubercular hue and boniness, offset by a rakish red kerchief drawn loosely around his thin neck.
EVENING’S EMPIRE
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Was that really how I looked, I wondered, how I appeared to others, the gabardine sitting rakishly on the shoulders, the sleeves hanging free?
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Hiram helped me into the pung, took his place beside me, and threw a conversational "huddup" to the rakish-looking sorrel colt.
Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life
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He leapt away before I could retort, blew me a kiss, and with a rakish smile, ran into his house.
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Now I make this point not just to add a sort of anorakish-footnote to the debate, but so that the episcopate that we are discussing comes a little more clearly into focus for us, in connection to many of the issues that have already been touched upon.
Speech to General Synod on Women Bishops
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When Margaret's marriage to a rakish fashion photographer broke up, she took up with a cad who promptly published a kiss-and-tell book on their affair.
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He arrives on the dot, his tall, dark-haired, slightly rakish figure hurrying up Petergate through the crowds.
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With one or both side brims snapped up to the crown you get a rakish look which also stiffens the front brim against wind.
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It turned out looking kind of rakish and cheerful and rather like how I like to think of myself.
Hip Op minus four days
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The Tru 140S is a rakish, front-drive car in the Japanese/Korean "Fast and Furious" mode.
Which Car Fantasies Should Come to Life?
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He has remarkably bold eyes, rather approaching to what we would call goggling, and he gives himself airs with them, as if he wished to have them thought rakish; perhaps as a recommendation, in his opinion, to the ladies.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction
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In lyrical roles, most notably the adagio movement of Symphony in C, her gangly body with its penchant for rakish angles softened into willow-tree pliancy and she achieved a poignancy that seemed to arise from the music and be one with it.
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This was a bed-less but mattress-strewn upstairs room already filled with a giggling band of musicians who wore mauve hats at rakish angles.
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My insistence that my haircuts are in some capacity 'rakish' no matter what anybody (chotbot) says.
Robotsarered Diary Entry
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She wore her school jumper draped over her shoulders and the knot of her tie was at a rakish angle.
IN REAL LIFE
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Within minutes, everyone around the dinner table was wearing a paper hat at a rakishly jaunty angle and looking expectantly in my direction.
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she wore her hat rakishly at an angle
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His whole dress and air was not what could properly be called foppish, it was rather what at that time was called "rakish.
Lucretia — Complete
