31 October 2015
rakish (1)
[rey-kish]
adjective
1. like a rake; dissolute:
rakish behavior.
Origin of rakish (1)
1700-1710; rake2+ -ish1
Related forms
rakishly, adverb
rakishness, noun
rakish (2)
[rey-kish]
adjective
1. smart; jaunty; dashing:
a hat worn at a rakish angle.
2. (of a vessel) having an appearance suggesting speed.
Origin
1815-25; rake3+ -ish1
Synonyms
1. sporting, dapper, debonair, breezy.
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Contemporary Examples
Last of Robin Hood also centers on a young woman who falls for a rakish older movie star.
Susan Sarandon on Her Love Affair With David Bowie, Woody Allen’s Creepiness, and Psychedelics
Marlow Stern
July 23, 2014
Sometimes his leather jackets were sporty and rakish, at others they were sculpted into prim, hourglass shapes.
Paris Fashion Week Frenzy: Let’s Focus on Clothes
Robin Givhan
March 8, 2011
The prince was rakish and clever and yes, even charming at times.
How the Sultan of Brunei Violated His Sharia Law With Me
Jillian Lauren
May 5, 2014
Today’s quote
There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.
– Marian Wright Edelman
On this day
31 October – Halloween (All Hallow’s Eve), celebrated in a number of countries on the eve of the Christian festival, All Hallows’ Day (or All Saints’ Day).
31 October 1517 – Protestant Revolution starts when Martin Luther posts his 95 theses on the Wittenburg Church in Germany in protest against what he saw as corruption in the Catholic Church.
31 October 1876 – large cyclone strikes India, killing more than 200,000 people.
31 October 1941 – completion of Mt Rushmore sculptures near Keystone, South Dakota. It is a sculpture carved into the granite face of the mountain and ended because funding ran out. The sculpture features the faces of four U.S. presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. Construction started on 4 October 1927. It was the brainchild of Doane Robinson. The carvings are 18m (60′) high and were carved by Gutzon Borglum and a team of 400 workers.
31 October 1984 – Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, assassinated by Sikh extremists.