Meaning & use
Rakishly
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In a dashingly casual, stylishly disreputable manner.
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He wore his hat tilted rakishly to one side.
The old sports car sat rakishly angled in the driveway.
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Derived from 'rake,' an old term for a fashionable but morally loose man about town.
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jauntilydashingly
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