1 (of a man) acting like a RAKE (= in an immoral, etc. way):
He plays the novel's rakish hero.
2 (of a hat) worn at an angle, and making the person wearing it look relaxed and confident:
He was wearing his hat at a rakish angle.
rakishly adverb:
He smiled rakishly.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for rakish is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is rakish a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, rakish is tagged as adjective.
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