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Example sentences for: raffish

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Raffish louts, cigar-sucking men who wear their hats indoors, chain-smoking women with voices like rusty gates, cynical muckrakers with one eye poised on the nearest keyhole, one ear on the latest whispered gossip, one nose on the nearest free lunch.
Respectable writers sneered at the tabs for their millions of lumpen readers; their fabricated or (worse) purchased stories; and their raffish British editors, who behaved more like blackmailers than like scions of the Fourth Estate.
That's hardly a new theme, but the director, Alexander Payne ( Citizen Ruth , 1996), has a Preston Sturges-like gift for going against the grain of his own cynicism, so that the movie fairly drips with irony without ever losing its raffish energy or its sense of wonder.