rakishly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

rakish +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

rakishly (comparative more rakishly, superlative most rakishly)

  1. In a rakish manner.
    • 1898, Kate Douglas Wiggin, chapter 8, in Penelope’s Progress [], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company [], →OCLC:
      The stair carpets are hanging on lines in the back garden, and Susanna, with her cap rakishly on one side, is always to be seen polishing the stair rods.
    • 2005, Dorian Lynskey, Dr John: Barbican, London, in: The Guardian, January 13 2005
      Wearing a suit the colour of a London bus, a rakishly tilted flat cap and carrying a walking cane, he resembles an eccentric country squire out for a ramble: the Day Tripper.