| 单词 | raffishness |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈraffishness ˈraffishness n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [noun] > quality or condition of rascaldry1600 raffishness1848 1848 Times 21 June 6/2 She is not destitute of cunning, but an excess of girlish spirits distinguishes her from the rest of the dramatis personæ, who, with more consummate worldly wisdom, move easily through an atmosphere of ‘raffishness’. 1936 R. C. K. Ensor England, 1870–1914 x. 304 Those again concerned with the fashionable surface of life and letters in London are struck by the revulsion from puritanism to raffishness, and speak of the ‘naughty nineties.’ 1999 J. Arnott Long Firm ii. 59 I invited him to White's... It retains a touch of aristocratic raffishness that has all but vanished from the rest of clubland. < as lemmas |
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