Definition of "raffish"
raffish
adjective
comparative more raffish, superlative most raffish
Characterized by careless unconventionality; rakish.
Quotations
Low-class; disreputable; vulgar.
Quotations
I had met the man before this in the village, and detested him on sight; there was something indescribably raffish in his looks and ways that raised my gorge; […]
1891 February–December, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter XV, in In the South Seas […], New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1896
Altogether the city [Las Vegas] is one of the most amiably raffish communities in the nation—an assembly of glittering chrome and flaming colors by day, a flowering jungle of glowing neon and flashing lights by night.
1951 February 11, Gladwin Hill, “Atomic Boom Town In the Desert”, in The New York Times