(a.) Having a saucy appearance indicative of speed and dash.
Example Sentences:
(1) Playing a character like Don Draper tends to colour people's interpretations of you …" His character in Bridesmaids , however, is not entirely dissimilar to that of rakish Draper.
(2) Then, however, the PlayStation 4 design was revealed: it's another reasonably large box, this time working a combination matt and shiny surface and a rakish slant.
(3) At the start of his film career, McShane was one of the rakish young blades of 1960s British cinema.
(4) Joking that his wife is still coming to terms with living under the same roof as the rakish Ashes to Ashes character, Cameron ended the rally with the cry: "As a much more witty man than I said: 'Fire up that Quattro, it's time for change'."
(5) The darker side of that seemingly innocent world of grinning DJs, rakish pop stars and adoring fans was kept inside the industry, where roadies remained silent about band members who habitually had sex with under-age girls.
(6) Ever mindful of his image, he was photographed with a bloodstained bandage swathing his rakish quiff.
(7) She gives herself to the rakish soldier with eyes wide open.
(8) With his National Rifle Association hat and rakish gait, he looks like a nativist from central casting, but he's a genial 70-year-old with a good sense of humour.
(9) This style of play, called sewamono, was perfected by Osaka's great actor Sakata Tojuro, a racy and rakish figure, who nevertheless, as actor-manager, paid close attention to detail, constantly urging observation on his colleagues.
(10) The committee chairman can't have been expecting their random late night karaoke – performed with rakish abandon, air guitar and all – to crop up in his parliamentary office.
(11) When male stars act the fool, it’s seen as part of their rakish charm.
(12) I suspect he was aiming for the kind of rakish dishevelment that Bill Nighy has made his own.
(13) On the many occasions I have been dumped by disappointed women, I was always heartened when they had the kindness to leave me for partners demonstrably superior to me – the clever and athletic Scottish doctor; the rakishly handsome Irish theatre promoter; the talented Canadian interior designer; the charming Australian pianist; the enigmatic and nameless Interrailing Dutchman; I took some comfort in this.
Stylish
Definition:
(a.) Having style or artistic quality; given to, or fond of, the display of style; highly fashionable; modish; as, a stylish dress, house, manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) Scientists are looking at making fabrics that can absorb poisonous gases or harmful bacteria, or conduct electricity, and be used to make stylish garments.
(2) "She [Simpson] was one of the most stylish women of the day, and there is a lasting fascination with their lives together which shows no sign of going away," said Bryony Meredith, head of Sotheby's jewellery department.
(3) City’s play is as stylish as anything Prada has to offer at New York fashion week.
(4) This year, after a generation of terminal decline, it won an award for stylish restoration that saved the birthplace of the seventh earl of Shaftesbury , the great 19th-century reformer who took up Wilberforce’s campaign to abolish slavery, and saw it through to victory.
(5) The reception area segues into the equally stylish Restaurante el Disparate.
(6) And a few young Muslims, of course, become radicalised, hijacking Islam for violent extremism and hatred, the polar opposite of Generation M. Stylish cover-up: inside International Modest fashion week Read more I ask her who the book is aimed at.
(7) Equally popular was the stylish Borsalino, starring Belmondo and Alain Delon as insouciant gangsters in 1930s Marseilles.
(8) Side-entrance shame The brochure for the upmarket apartments of One Commercial Street, on the edge of the City, boasts of a "bespoke entrance lobby ... With the ambience of a stylish hotel reception area, it creates a stylish yet secure transition space between your home and the City streets".
(9) The stylish, varnished wooden interior and whitewashed walls has a slightly Danish feel, but General Merchant’s brunch-y, all-day menu is inspired by Australian cafe culture, where good coffee and pan-global fusion plates are the norm.
(10) Welbeck was fouled 25 yards out and the wall parted obligingly as Van Persie sized up his shot and pulled back that stylish left foot.
(11) Photograph: Fox Searchlight Stylish neckwear The design of The Grand Budapest Hotel is perhaps Anderson’s most ambitious effort yet and, true to impeccable form, the neckwear is not found wanting.
(12) Instead, when we meet her at the beginning of the series, Nyborg is more concerned with moving house – presumably supplying viewers with shots of a variety of stylish new light fittings and perplexing floor plans to obsess over – than a political party with which she is increasingly disillusioned.
(13) If United occasionally looked slow in thought and movement, it was because their opponents passed the ball so stylishly.
(14) To the rear is the stylishly poised Miramar restaurant and on one side the jauntier hotel Belle-Vue, with its tiny, busy balcony restaurant poking out on the first floor.
(15) The lodge’s stylish restaurant, The Tree House, offers cuisine that blends the best of Peruvian, Asian, Italian and Latin American flavours.
(16) Both were better than I expected when I watched them perform before Christmas, though neither too stylish or lively.
(17) There is an increasing number of boutique hotels – I spent a night at the super-stylish Estalagem in nearby Ponta do Sol, which has recently opened a cheaper, funky sister property, Hotel da Vila .
(18) With stylish monochrome graphics and frequently fiendish puzzles, it's a rewarding and original adventure.
(19) From his brutal Pusher trilogy to the weird and wonderful anti-biopic Bronson , these films are more like art installations, shimmering with stylish violence and near-hallucinatory moments.
(20) "That is probably not the way to create some of the stylishness."