Examples of “raffish” in a Sentence

adj Marked by a casual disregard for convention; rakish.

• The smokers' most raffish outsider, Comstock, appeared to do nothing but smoke; Chris had never seen him inside the building. — Jennifer Egan, i, the Protagonist (2022)
• He bowed cordially to the lady in charge of Miss de Barral’s education, whom he saw in the hall engaged in conversation with a very good-looking but somewhat raffish young gentleman. — Joseph Conrad, The Governess (1914)
• He wore a neat dark overcoat, brown shoes, and a bowler hat rather on one side; his appearance was, in fact, genteel, though his air was a trifle raffish. — Anthony Hope (1919)