How to Use rakish in a Sentence

rakish

adjective

• My Mobylette had a rakish red frame and an extra-long black-leather seat with space for a girl with a scarf around her neck.
  — New York Times, 27 Oct. 2021
• The rakish law man would chase a baddie across Kentucky back roads and trailer parks.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 17 July 2023
• The side profile teased a sharp angles and a rakish roofline, with a small Lexus badge located above the rear wheel arch.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 8 Apr. 2023
• West is cut from the finest of rakish Duke cloths, a dissolute drunk, gambler, and brawler, until the love of a good woman brings him to his knees.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 17 Nov. 2022
• The former is a rakish bar and dining room with a jungle of an outdoor terrace on the rooftop and snacks including skewers.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
• The new hat silhouette of choice is an oversized saucer shape, worn at a rakish slant so her face is still in clear view for royal fans and photographers alike.
  — Emma Spedding, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2023
• When readers meet Anthony in Quinn's series, his attraction to an opera singer named Maria Rosso is briefly mentioned in a nod to his rakish ways.
  — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE.com, 26 Mar. 2022
• Where Cobb’s tower points brazenly to the sky, like a rocket ship ready for liftoff, the new building has its asymmetrical cap sliced at a rakish downward angle, like a wedge of cheese.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 10 June 2021
• Ruffalo was offered the role of rakish attorney Duncan Wedderburn and recalled how he was sent the script.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 18 Jan. 2024
• And yet the two men’s rakish charm, in one of the high watermarks of ’70s hangout cinema, makes this not just a great buddy movie but a beautiful exploration of boys-will-be-boys friendship.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2021
• The gesture was flirtatious and naughty without seeming rakish.
  — Danielle Amir Jackson Malike Sidibe, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• Custom built in 1998 by the Australian yard Oceanfast, this sleek, rakish go-fast speed demon came from the drawing board of the godfather of modern yacht design, Jon Bannenberg.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 24 Dec. 2021
• Those packs could become as small as 100 mm for high-performance sports models where a low seating position and rakish roofline come with the territory.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Sep. 2023
• And not just any ordinary shoes: This was a gleaming, rakish set of Maison Margiela Tabis, notable for their signature cleft toe and retailing for $990 before tax.
  — Amy X. Wang, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• Sebastian is a cash-poor viscount with a rakish reputation.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2024
• After all, the rakish Frenchman who makes up half of Dangerous Liaisons’s legendarily gruesome twosome ends up being one of the great bad apples of literature (and film, and the stage).
  — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 21 Nov. 2022
• Wearing a bowler hat and twirling a cane, Bubbles, in the role of a rakish murderer named Domino Johnson, swans into a cabaret and unleashes a cyclone of spins, floating slides and crisp, sudden stops that are at once familiar and uncanny.
  — Sarah L. Kaufman, Washington Post, 22 May 2022
• This Manx, in particular, was difficult to get into or out of because the windshield has been cut down three inches for a more rakish appearance, and the steering column lowered an inch at the cowl for a sportier driving position.
  — Car and Driver, 11 Aug. 2022
• The result is a rakish Coke-bottle shape and immediately recognizable front and rear appearances.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 11 Aug. 2022
• The rakish appearance — the provocatively angular exterior shape — will not be to everyone’s taste.
  — Nargess Banks, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021
• The greenhouse subtly slopes down toward the D-pillar and the beltline rises, creating a the impression of a somewhat rakish silhouette without an actual coupe-like tapered roofline as seen on some luxury SUV models.
  — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 8 June 2021
• Their rakish tilt may be the result of gravitational disturbances from a companion star, perhaps in combination with the influence of another planet that got tossed out of the system entirely.
  — Stephen Ornes, Discover Magazine, 28 Jan. 2011
• And yet, Carville is also oddly sympathetic—one senses Carlson recognizes a fellow traveler, another rakish opportunist who just happens to be playing for the other side.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 16 Sep. 2021
• Of course, the rakish accessories are also historically accurate.
  — Fawnia Soo Hoo, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2024
• My Mobylette had a rakish red frame and an extra-long black-leather seat with space for a girl with a scarf around her neck.
  — New York Times, 27 Oct. 2021
• The rakish law man would chase a baddie across Kentucky back roads and trailer parks.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 17 July 2023
• The side profile teased a sharp angles and a rakish roofline, with a small Lexus badge located above the rear wheel arch.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 8 Apr. 2023
• West is cut from the finest of rakish Duke cloths, a dissolute drunk, gambler, and brawler, until the love of a good woman brings him to his knees.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 17 Nov. 2022
• The former is a rakish bar and dining room with a jungle of an outdoor terrace on the rooftop and snacks including skewers.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
• The new hat silhouette of choice is an oversized saucer shape, worn at a rakish slant so her face is still in clear view for royal fans and photographers alike.
  — Emma Spedding, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024