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Definition of Raffishness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Raffishness
Literary usage of Raffishness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt by Leigh Hunt (1850)
"Some were of a portentous raffishness. As to the priests and friars (for there
followed a variety), I could not help observing, that, with very few ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1893)
"... and Lady Thomasin is a sporting character with heartiness and dash, and a
touch of raffishness. If the girls are strange, their lovers are stranger. ..."
3. A Modern History of the English People by Gretton, Richard Henry, 1874- (1913)
"... to dissipation and raffishness. The Coliseum crowds of 1910, without a vice
to divide among them, represented thousands upon thousands of petty suburban ..."
4. The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt: With Reminiscences of Friends and by Leigh Hunt (1850)
"Some were of a portentous raffishness. As to the priests and friars (for there
followed a variety), I could not help observing, that, with very few ..."
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