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Quotes About Raffish

The roof of the front porch of the house is covered, for some reason, with moss, and also, on one side, with wisteria, which gives the house a sort of raffish Veronica Lake look, a disheveled charm.
~ Renata Adler
Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a mood so raffish that there are those who claim to have seen her with her slip showing.
~ Willis Thornton
Sure," Chris said reflexively, aware that Raffish Outsiders seldom repeated an offer.
~ Jennifer Egan
Cicero's take on official Rome was less flattering: "A more raffish assemblage never sat down in a low-grade music hall," he huffed
~ Stacy Schiff
She was beautiful in a bold, clean-featured way, as spirited and raffish as a female pirate. She and Rafe had always understood each other, perhaps because neither of them had been able to tolerate the stringent rules set by their parents.
~ Lisa Kleypas
A Brazilian film? Naturally, if there's a bed, a woman with a raffish expression, and a man in only his underwear, it could only be Brazilian cinema.
~ Unknown