(a.) Resembling, or having the character of, raff, or a raff; worthless; low.
Example Sentences:
(1) Kenneth introduced them both to Swinging London and he enjoyed the frisson of arriving at debauched parties with two 21-year-old men, one of them fey and elegant, and the other raffish and working-class."
(2) His father, a teacher, introduced him to serious drama, but young Bill also experienced raffish visual entertainment from the visiting Sadler’s Wells Ballet.
(3) Like David Byrne, Chaz Jankel and Jez Kerr, Dear is one of white funk's great declarers, raffishly making gnomic observations like a pitch-shifted James Mason.
(4) He proved himself a brilliant, yet unflashy, raconteur with quite a raffish bohemian past.
(5) He was always impeccably turned out - always a suit and tie, when the rest of us slobs slumped around the screening rooms in jeans - though he favoured a raffish cravat, brilliant white slacks and a huge pair of aviator-style sunglasses when on the Croisette at Cannes.
(6) The Tories have raffishly gathered at the country's best loved steeplechase race course this weekend, on the northern edge of town.
(7) She is the daughter of the Queen’s late sister, Princess Margaret, and the raffish society snapper Lord Snowdon .
(8) The epitome of raffish cool in the Kate Moss days, he’s now actively positioning himself as a grumpy micromanaged has-been.
(9) Raffish, good-natured, and quintessentially English in his propensity to say sorry, Perry is now at agonies to insist his comments were ill-informed.
(10) A woman placed in the role of an action hero or a criminal adventurer is empowered, heroic, raffish.
(11) With its clubby green armchairs and smoothly attentive waiters, it's old school in the best possible way; what used to be called "raffish".
(12) Similarly, when Billy starts shooting large numbers of people through their heads in a breezy and cheerful fashion, you're supposed to take this as part of his raffish charm.
(13) Bill Astor, who had introduced the two lovers at the poolside party at the family seat, had a raffish reputation of his own - and he was David's elder brother.
(14) Teachout gives us a fast-moving overview of Mencken's career, his influential co-editorship of the raffish society magazine Smart Set and of the countercultural American Mercury, his amorous bachelordom, his final decades when his memoirs gave him a renewed popularity after years in political exile during the 1930s.
(15) A raffish or mysterious aura, it seems to me, is just as helpful when it comes to making a class pay attention as an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Hundred Years' War.
Unconventional
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Tijuana, Mexico, has become a refuge for cancer patients who have been convinced that they may be cured of their terminal illness by unconventional, unproved, and disproved methods offered in the border clinics.
(2) Although not all reported unconventional applications of antimicrobial agents remain in use, sharpening awareness of their multifaceted actions should encourage broader understanding of all agents traditionally confined to specific uses.
(3) The use of an unconventional radiation fractionation schedule may have resulted in increased bowel morbidity in patients in the PLUS MISO arm who subsequently underwent cystectomy.
(4) Bruce decided another striker might now be necessary and replaced Sone Aluko with Abel Hernández, who immediately brought a save from Tom Heaton with an unconventional backheel.
(5) Despite the "immense challenges" which Yves Mersch cited today , BNP reckons the ECB will have to take unconventional action to fight off weak inflation and to stimulate growth.
(6) Industry estimates suggest there may be enough of this and other so-called "unconventional" forms of gas, which are newly accessible because of advances in a technique known as hydraulic fracturing - "fracking" – to power the globe for two centuries.
(7) Predominantly young people decide to change their life-style, unconventional eating practices being part of it.
(8) Scrapie-associated fibrils (SAFs) are abnormal filamentous structures that are uniquely associated with unconventional slow virus diseases.
(9) Unless they order Russia to leave its gas in the ground and Saudi Arabia to leave its oil in the ground (which nobody has proposed), they must phase out coal and prohibit unconventional fossil fuels.
(10) It is suggested that in M. mycoides, at least some of the family codon boxes are read by only one tRNA each, using an unconventional method which does not discriminate between the nucleotides in the third codon position.
(11) Support to those providing informal care might also be facilitated through community support services such as respite care, household maintenance, psychological support to care-givers, support groups, informal networks within a community and consideration of unconventional support methods.
(12) Since in general it is not possible to influence the families' eating practices, physicians should know the risks of unconventional diets, such as hypoproteinemia, calcium deficiency and deficiencies of vitamin B12 and vitamin D and the respective clinical symptoms.
(13) After retrobulbar inoculation, the unconventional ALSP virus disseminated both neurogenically (along the optic nerve) and hematogenically.
(14) Unconventional fractionation is no less promising, and as distinct from radiomodifiers it does not require extra resources or special equipment.
(15) There are differences, however, between MIL and MIB in the sequence organization of their unconventional C-terminal domains.
(16) Aqueous humor leaves the anterior chamber through 2 pathways: the trabecular meshwork of the iridocorneal angle and the unconventional uveoscleral route.
(17) Anesthesiologists may be required to secure an airway in an unconventional manner in these patients, as well as use special ventilation methodology and challenging anesthesia techniques.
(18) One clone recognizes an unconventional TL-encoded antigen, whereas others have been shown to recognize either classical MHC class I or class II antigens.
(19) To determine whether unconventional pathogens causing subacute spongiform encephalopathy may be present in blood products, a newly developed hepatitis B vaccine and a widely used blood product were injected into mice and rats.
(20) Mariela Castro, the daughter of President Raúl Castro and niece of Fidel Castro, has given an unprecedented "no" vote in the Cuban parliament to a workers' rights bill she felt didn't go far enough to prevent discrimination against people with HIV or with unconventional gender identities.