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"rakish" Definitions
  1. acting like a rake (2) (= in a way that is not moral, etc.) synonym dissolute
  2. if you wear a hat at a rakish angle, it is not straight on your head and it makes you look relaxed and confident synonym jaunty

124 Sentences With "rakish"

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Rakish biographer overidentified with rakish subject; Scott made her story a version of his own.
There's something rakish, sexy and a bit dangerous about it.
His mask is askew, giving him a wry, rakish air.
Not the snazzy AMG GLC coupé, with its rakish fastback.
Nya, sheltered and sweet, is a clear foil to the rakish Johan.
Her outfit was encircled by a tutu tilted at a particularly rakish angle.
The Berliner Ensemble's versatile Andreas Döhler plays Stanley gruffly, without any rakish charm.
It sounds like an innocent, sweet young thing and a leering, rakish fellow.
As a former Saratogian, I'm partial to the city and its rakish charms.
He was a rakish, six-foot, two-hundred-pound marketing consultant on the move.
It is one of the many examples of his grandfather's rakish sense of humor.
Warner, at eighty-nine, is still rakish, with a sleek shock of white hair.
As a teenager, Rachel falls in love with Elazar, rakish son of the high priest.
As a collective, she and her friends organize a gendered revolt against their rakish colleagues.
All we know so far is that it's a rakish SUV that boasts some cool lights.
Lolita's rakish smile belies the decades of turmoil that accompanied the gradual realization she was transgender.
The first two episodes play directly with the perception of what a young, rakish pope would do.
A rakish Ohio senator, Warren Harding, would eventually ride it all the way to the White House.
There are over 1,000 distinct kinds of frowns on display, from rakish to tragic, ironic to crushed.
Bourdain, whose rakish personality and appetite for culinary curiosities entertained millions of viewers, committed suicide on June 8.
If the women movie makers created cared about money, they showed it by scheming to marry rich, rakish antiheroes.
The film's rakish, middle-aged hero, Wiktor (Tomasz Kot), is forming a state-sponsored folk-music ensemble in 1949.
The show stars Adam Pally as Dan, a rakish idiot, and Yassir Lester as Chris, a stuck-up professor.
They handled instruments like found objects: a violin propped against a hip, a cello tilted at a rakish angle.
Layers come off, until a black muscle T-shirt remains, and a black armband to match a rakish mustache.
It's more scandalized than a dowager countess finding her headstrong niece alone on the lap of a rakish duke.
Between events, I named the landscape's components in my head: single yellow line, grass, ugly rock, rakish slope toward road.
From afar, the cascade contributes to the musician's rakish superstar aura, but Mr. Perry considers it a wearable time capsule.
In an earlier episode this season, the rakish bandit Hector (Rodrigo Santoro) declares his love for the mastermind robot leader Maeve.
Chris put on a rakish fedora to play Indiana Jones, running and cracking the whip as his body and voice changed.
" Even Eduardo, who wears a rakish eye patch, is likened to "a high priest or a Dracula or a Fu Manchu.
A few rakish lines of black on a bare canvas would suffice for a figure, a head or a stuffed animal.
It's a paramedic with a diamond ear stud, a rakish haircut, and a rainbow-colored enamel badge saying: LGBT Paramedics Association.
Tom Cruise's career suggests that these operations are entirely possible, as does every other movie about rakish charmers facing hopeless odds.
I used to spend nearly all my pocket money on either Landmark Books or, if I was feeling rakish, Hardy Boys books.
Corsair is known for RAM sticks, power supplies, and a line of rakish, FPS-friendly gaming mice, which have plenty of fans.
Ben Bradlee, in this telling, was a rakish Kennedy confidant who tempered his Newsweek coverage of the president to preserve their bond.
Gilbert Osmond is neither stupid nor tasteless: he's precisely the sort of person who's been glorified as rakish in endless rom coms.
Ms. Cruz portrays Magda, a 40-ish schoolteacher whose rakish husband, Raúl (Alex Brendemühl), a professor, is having an affair with a student.
Grand-scale hair looks current and youthful when it's done with a rakish, imperfect finish, says the mononymous New York-based hairstylist Garren.
Richard Wilhelm Jarecki was not the sort of rakish bon vivant that might come to mind as the epitome of a successful gambler.
I'm really ready for the cinematic version to find that rakish, hip-shot confidence that makes him stand out so much in the comics.
In Chile, Santiago's rakish sailor brother is the port city of Valparaíso, with its handsome looks, edgy creativity and whiff of salt-air decay.
Before the Bad Plus was doing rakish pop covers in a freak-jazz format, Sex Mob had a weekly gig at the Knitting Factory.
Go ahead, then: Pile on cozy-chic knits and a shaggy faux fur; put on a rakish cap; and wrap yourself in a multicolor scarf.
In 1933, when the Nazis appoint Heidegger as rector of Freiburg University, Ms. Milch-Sheriff replaces the rakish tenor with a Mephistophelean baritone (Adam Kruzel).
NEW ORLEANS — Can the allure of this famously rakish and freewheeling city survive if its streets are covered by a 14,500-camera video monitoring system?
Pamela Andrews is a poor, fifteen-year-old servant in London whose employer, Lady B, dies, leaving her rakish son in charge of the household.
Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, whose rakish personality and appetite for culinary curiosities entertained millions of viewers, was found dead of an apparent suicide early Friday morning.
And Cruise's preference for playing rakish, overmatched, but enduring good guys is well-established; he might veto any plot that takes him in a dark direction.
In the novel, she gives herself a tattered, dissolute glamour — she's wearing a rakish rose-brown man's fedora and one of her mother's threadbare silk dresses.
An existential crisis prompts an affair with a rakish older astronaut (Jon Hamm), which prompts a different kind of crisis — involving duct tape and a gun.
Except for the MacBook Air propped in his lap, he looked like a detective in a 1960s French movie: mussed gray hair, bristling eyebrows, rakish trimmed beard.
Richardson's crusade against rakish men was one of several themes that Austen would take up in her own fiction, oftentimes more convincingly (as in "Sense and Sensibility").
The script fizzes, leaning into its own conceit, with Banderas rising to the challenge beautifully, playing Mallo with all the wit and rakish charm one might expect.
Maybe, sadly, I've grown desensitized to a screenwriting solution that finds it a riot to transmit the toxic affliction of the rakish white hero to a black maid.
As the second season begins, Letty has gained custody of her son, Jacob, and settled with him and Javier, a rakish hit man, in a remote beach town.
And while her children were closely guarded secrets during her lifetime, the poet's close relationship with Jerdan, her rakish publisher, did not go unnoticed in the satirical press.
He was wearing a lot more clothing now, a black vest over gray pants and a waffle-knit thermal shirt, a tan hat set at a rakish tilt.
Painting, digital, architecture, and an eclectic foray into rug design have made her a name in whimsical design work, not to mention a rakish and well-rounded creative mind.
I bought this record called Push Push, which basically has a velour cover; he straight-up has no shirt on and flute on his shoulder, adopting a rakish attitude.
In another, a glum bear of a guy wearing undershorts, black socks and a rakish hat stands, as if stripped down for a fight, on a Coney Island beach.
To call her a brute is to call a Lamborghini a bulldozer, and maybe it's because of her influence that I've always thought of ruffians as rakish and charming.
The rakish angles of the wheel arches and triangular air outlets call back to Lamborghini's first SUV, the LM002 (aka Rambo Lambo) of the late 1980s and early '90s.
In the front hall, Powell & Bonnell made a rakish nook with black walls by Farrow & Ball, custom wool chairs and a lozenge-shape table they designed for the space.
Silent Wolf's clear boredom with the mercenaries' lack of skill, and his rakish smirk when he pulls off a particularly contemptuous move against them, suggest a looser, more playful film.
In New York, customers flocked to Wanamaker's department store to snatch up the "Rough Rider," a rakish new style of hat available in a variety of materials, including nutria fur.
" For the show's rakish Uncle Jesse, Mr. Franklin chose someone who seemed like a kindred spirit and fellow playboy — John Stamos, who was coming off a short-lived sitcom, "You Again?
The outcome was especially harsh for DeHaan (Chronicle, Kill Your Darlings), a promising up-and-coming actor who was judged to be wildly miscast as the supposedly dashing and rakish Valerian.
Since bursting onto the Hollywood scene as the universe's favorite mortal teenager, Stewart has always shone as an industry game-changer, even when surrounded by a sea of brooding, rakish vampires.
He narrates the story of a life filled with rakish charm, womanizing and, not incidentally, love (with Gene Tierney), in which quick wit and charisma rarely fail to compensate for foibles.
A self-mocking charmer with laugh-crinkled dark eyes, a rakish mustache and a hairy chest that he often bared onscreen, Mr. Reynolds did not always win the respect of critics.
Missing the wedding is meant to be bad even if the image of an exuberant Earl rolling up to the conference wearing a rakish grin and a seersucker suit suggests otherwise.
Wheels The Allard J2 and J2X, rakish British sports cars stuffed with high-performance American V-8 engines, terrorized racetracks on both sides of the Atlantic from 1949 into the 1950s.
A failed stockbroker, the rakish Fleming imbibed drink, women and the family fortune as he tried to escape the shadow of his adventurous older brother and the disappointment of his formidable mother.
Rakish, dapper, not quite ruined, quavering with half-concealed amusement, courteous toward a fallen world, and somehow both urbane and faintly spectral, he could have stepped straight out of a Sargent portrait.
Beginning in the '90s, she became a muse for Vivienne Westwood and a model for designer Pam Hogg, taking to the catwalk in her rakish signature garb with a high-culture spin.
It has the leather finish of Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona chairs, but in place of their rakish tilt, it is uncomfortably low to the ground and too short to lounge on.
But he was also, as this show asserts, a kind of working-class hero, whose rakish tastes and picaresque exploits only became possible as an old social order began to give way.
Johnson is a witty, rakish showman who always puts himself at the center of attention and is willing to put up with a lot of scandal and disapproval in order to stay there.
Since bursting onto the Hollywood scene as the universe's favorite mortal girl in Twilight, Kristen Stewart has always shone as an industry game-changer, even when surrounded by a sea of brooding, rakish vampires.
Since bursting onto the Hollywood scene as the universe's favorite mortal teenager in Twilight, Kristen Stewart has always shone as an industry game-changer, even when surrounded by a sea of brooding, rakish vampires.
There's an actual house called the Crypto Castle, and the king is Jeremy Gardner, 256, a rakish young investor with a hedge fund who has become the de facto tour guide for crypto newcomers.
The Academy Award-winning Alicia Vikander plays Queen Caroline Mathilde of Denmark, who succumbs to a rakish court physician (Mads Mikkelsen), while the infantile King Christian VII (Mikkel Boe Folsgaard) flounders in mental illness.
His sharp tailoring and rakish flair led to a stint with Hedi Slimane at Yves Saint Laurent, before he was plucked to head men's wear design at Calvin Klein's CK line in New York.
But Mr. Grove, while game, seemed far too much a schoolboy to convince us he's rakish, and he and Ms. Graham had little of the onstage chemistry that's crucial in selling this thin romance.
Honora takes New York by storm, entering into an agreement with the notorious rakish financier Julius Hatcher to pretend to be engaged — his entree into top society, her strategy in her war with the earl.
The dream hasn't materialized yet, but today at the 2018 New York Auto Show, Genesis unveiled a design for a grand tourer that's rakish, edgy, surprisingly cool, and that gets us a step closer to Futurama.
The work, which accelerated in the spring, has convulsed entire districts, churning up debris and clouds of dust and wiping out scores of the places that have given the capital a bit of its rakish charm.
She lives with her parents, her older brothers — rakish Tommy and practical Eddie — and her Aunt Ruth, her mother's sister, who harbors a terrible secret, and who never leaves the confines of her small house behind Mimi's.
Speaking of manservants: The Academy Award-winning Alicia Vikander plays Queen Caroline Mathilda of Denmark, who succumbs to a rakish court physician (Mads Mikkelsen), while the infantile King Christian VII (Mikkel Boe Folsgaard) flounders in mental illness.
Mr. Cooper's rakish quality proves a necessary calling card for his part here as the eponymous libertine John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester — the notorious courtier-poet who died in 1680 at the age of 33.
Bearing a rakish grin and a bald head presumably bronzed under a tanning bed, he had the swagger of a very rich man who doesn't lie awake at night thinking about the future of the American republic.
Overruling his taste for a rakish peak lapel requires a trip to the custom salon; in made-to-measure, the customer is king, but on the sales floor Mr. Ford is boss, and the boss prefers peak.
On social media, Khaseen, whom friends called Kha, is seen in photos posing with friends, smiling, pulling faces, his short cropped dreadlocks worn in a rakish style, one half of his head dyed a rusty red color.
") She begins wooing the heiress Ann Walker (Sophie Rundle), gently encouraging her hints of affection and boasting to the camera, in a rakish aside, "I can see that the poor girl already seems thoroughly in love with me.
When Hortense and her husband Gilbert (Gershwyn Eustache Jr) follow Hortense's rakish runaway cousin Michael (CJ Beckford) to Britain, taking up lodgings in Queenie's house, their lives intersect with all the drama and incidental complexity of a Victorian novel.
As the movie opens, Captain Kirk (Chris Pine, still playing the part with rakish cool) is feeling burdened by the weight of the Enterprise's five-year mission to explore new worlds, which he's smack-dab in the middle of.
Laaleen Khan, the founder of the Pakistani branch, has noted that South Asian society has its share of "disapproving Lady Catherine de Bourgh-esque society aunties, rakish Wickhams and Willoughbys, pretentious Mrs Eltons and holier-than thou Mr Collins types".
The tribes wore a mishmash of clothing — brightly colored traditional wraps, animal skins and adornments, mixed freely with Chelsea football jerseys, rakish caps and fatigue shorts — creating an all too apt picture of Africa's disparate influences, all vying for dominance.
He wears glasses with photochromic lenses (at one point I glanced up from my notebook to realize, with a small start, that I could no longer see his eyes) and has a somewhat rakish goatee that is filigreed with silver.
As a strong-willed career gal who inadvertently falls in love with a rakish playboy (played by Rock Hudson), Day conveys both a commitment to bedrock moral values and an undeniable yearning to be hugged and smooched by a total dreamboat.
At first, the photographer affects a rakish air, demonstrating how he hid the camera in his overcoat while his wife, Stefania, kept a lookout, but it soon becomes clear that his soul is heavy, freighted with the memory of thousands of murdered Jews.
The ruler here is King Llane (Dominic Cooper), a rather progressive monarch who fights the invading orcs with a multihued army, a rakish aide-de-camp (Travis Fimmel), a token chick (Paula Patton) and a magical twosome (Ben Foster and Ben Schnetzer).
This article originally appeared on EW.com Harry Styles always seemed like the guy having the best time in One Direction: a dimpled, rakish prankster happy to wear the mantle of Class Clown — maybe because he knew that Most Likely to Succeed belonged to him too.
Lisa Sanditz, whose palette is generally vibrant if not supersaturated, delivers a gem with "Cleared Lot" (7113), a 16 x 20 inch painting depicting a muddy-gray heap of earth and garbage out of which grows a spunky tree at an impossibly rakish angle.
When I met him four years ago, he was a rather rakish, restless and insecure entrepreneur in his 20s, selling sandwiches at a shop on the street, and accordions over the phone — where else but Shanghai can you make a living with that odd sales combination?
Robert Henri's 1916 painting of a lounging-but-alert Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the museum's founder, is here, as is a late-1920s self-portrait by Edward Hopper, one of the museum's foundational artists, looking rakish in a battered fedora and a shirt that matches his azure eyes.
Barely out of his teens, he shot to fame shortly after World War II with a nightclub act in which the rakish, imperturbable Dean Martin crooned and the skinny, hyperactive Mr. Lewis capered around the stage, a dangerously volatile id to Mr. Martin's supremely relaxed ego.
For instance, the BMW 3-series and 603-series are essentially the same car but the 4-series has a more rakish body style and is available with two doors or as a convertible while the 3-series is available as a sedan, hatchback or wagon.
At the heart of the episode is Trump's relationship with Aras Agalarov, a billionaire Russian real estate mogul with ties to Putin, and Agalarov's rakish son, Emin, 21, a dance-pop singer with ambitions to international stardom who got Trump to appear in one of his music videos.
In the waltz-drenched "Daybreak," adapted from a novella by Arthur Schnitzler, Novarro plays a rakish imperial lieutenant who seduces an innocent music teacher; in "Son of India," he appears à la Rudolph Valentino, as a wealthy princeling who embarks on a forbidden love affair with Madge Evans's naïve American tourist.
"Alone it stood, if not crooked at any rate somewhat rakish, stuck on a landscape of such stunning red and gold grandeur that its life could be only a matter of brevity, a beetle of brown boards and tarpaper roof waiting for metamorphosis," she wrote of Capricorn in her autobiography.
The students' struggle, which became known as the Free Speech Movement, consumed the university's attention for much of the academic year, and made minor national celebrities of the movement's undergraduate leaders—especially Mario Savio, who was rakish enough to be a countercultural icon and articulate enough to be interviewed on television.
Despite her cookies and chirpy persona, Stephanie seems uneasy in her own skin, but she soon finds a new focus (other than her son and herself) when she sees Emily slink out of a Porsche in stilettos and a peekaboo pinstripe suit, hair cascading from beneath a rakish black fedora.
Each of these structures is notable within Wright's oeuvre, whether for the Darwin D. Martin House's reconciliation of strong rectilinear lines with the property's sprawling gardens, the integration of rakish rooflines and dynamic floor plan in Taliesin West, or the homogeneity and modernist efficiency of Unity Temple's reinforced concrete construction.
Curators Zanna Gilbert (Getty Research Institute) and John Tain (Asia Art Archive) will speak about the history of artists' use of xerography, SFMoMA Librarian David Senior will give a talk on the connections between publishing and performance art, and Rakish Light will co-present a reading by painter Gailyn Saroyan & poet Aram Saroyan.
Pistol Annies: Interstate Gospel (RCA) Did Miranda Lambert/Ashley Monroe/Angaleena Presley, as the composer credits on 13 of these 14 songs put it, come up with the "Jesus is the bread of life / Without him we're toast" opener or lift it from some rakish evangelist I'm too provincial to know about?
The herpetologist Lady Grace Wyatt has her eye on a handsome fellow naturalist who sees her just as a friend, so she recruits her friend Sebastian, an anthropologist, to pose as a rakish aristocrat and pretend to court her, to drive up her social value and get her crush to notice her.
" Hence the relative reserve with which the narrator subsequently details her liaison with Cliff, a rakish, "reckless" horseman — he rides like a Cossack — whom she falls for with the same helpless lust with which teenage bibliophiles swoon over Emily Brontë's brooding antihero: "It is hard to describe how handsome Cliff was, how sexy and how attracted I was.
In a career begun in a rakish fedora and the smoky press rooms of the 1940s, Mr. Baker was a police reporter, a rewrite man and a London correspondent for The Baltimore Sun, and after 1954 a Washington correspondent for The Times, rising swiftly with a clattering typewriter and a deft writer's touch to cover the White House, Congress and the presidential campaigns of 19683 and 1960.
As much as the finely orchestrated plot, the joy of the story lies in its perfect period detail, the exquisitely sketched settings and a cast of supporting characters who, as in the best novels of the era in which the book is set, spring to technicolour life: a cigarette-puffing female doctor in St Petersburg, an American anthropologist researching sexual mores in the Andaman Islands, a rakish convalescent in Nice.
Today, at the seventh official EuroHeedfest Guided By Voices Appreciation event, I have heard approximately 50 songs attributed to frontman Robert Pollard, scratching the surface of what will eventually be at least four times that; I have seen all manner of Guided By Voices T-Shirt, faded and lived in with years of love; I've seen your dad raise his glass in the air and chant the most heartfelt "YEAHS" to the ambitiously rakish choruses.
The milk float with its thin mosquito whine straining through larch and elder from the lane, the nervous bottles in their metal basket intent on music but without a tune, the milkman in his doctor's stubby coat and sailor's rakish dark-blue canvas cap are all invisible, imagined/dreamed beyond my curtains in the early light, along with tissue footprints in the frost, our rinsed-out empties, and the rolled-up note exchanged for bottles with their silver tops the blue tits have already broken through to sip the stiffened plugs of cream before we come downstairs and bring our order in. 3.

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