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The answer RAKISH has 75 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of rakish in various dictionaries:
adj - marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
adj - marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness
Having a trim, streamlined appearance: “We were schooner-rigged and rakish, with a long and lissome hull” (John Masefield).
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| Dapper |
| Dapper, as a hat's angle |
| Natty |
| Dashing |
| Debonair |
| Jaunty |
| Devil-may-care |
| Jauntily dashing |
| Sporty |
| the shark might be dashing around one |
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| having or displaying a dashing, jaunty, or slightly disreputable quality or appearance. |
| (especially of a boat or car) smart and fast-looking, with streamlined angles and curves. |
| marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness |
| marked by smartness in dress and manners |
| A rakish man, especially a rich man, lives in an immoral way, especially having sex with a lot of women: |
| confidently careless and informal: |
| Nautical Having a trim, streamlined appearance: "We were schooner-rigged and rakish, with a long and lissome hull ( John Masefield). |
| Dashingly or sportingly stylish jaunty. |
| Of the character of a rake dissolute. |
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In a historical context, a rake (short for rakehell, analogous to "hellraiser") was a man who was habituated to immoral conduct, particularly womanising. Often, a rake was also prodigal, wasting his (usually inherited) fortune on gambling, wine, women and song, and incurring lavish debts in the process. Comparable terms are "libertine" and "debauchee". * The Restoration rake was a carefree, witty, sexually irresistible aristocrat whose heyday was during the English Restoration period (16601688) at the court of Charles II. They were typified by the "Merry Gang" of courtiers, who included as prominent members the Earl of Rochester; George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham; and the Earl of Dorset, who combined riotous living with intellectual pursuits and patronage of the arts. At this time the rake featured as a stock character in Restoration comedy.After the reign of Charles II, and especially after the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the cultural perception of the rake took a dive into squal |