The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rakishly \Rak"ish*ly\ (r[=a]k"[i^]sh*l[y^]), adv. In a rakish manner.
Wiktionary
adv. In a rakish manner.
WordNet
adv. in a rakish manner; "she wore her hat rakishly at an angle" [syn: raffishly, carelessly]
Usage examples of "rakishly".
Purple satin kerchiefs were tied around their necks and debonair straw boaters were rakishly angled on top of their heads.
He had a pale face with large black eyes and dark hair partly covered with a Glengarry bonnet set rakishly over one ear.
Kat had never thought of herself as an ogler, but here she was practically drooling at the man she saw smiling rakishly at the camera.
We had now come to the road in front of the house, and Mount set his cap rakishly on his head, straightened cape and baldrick, and ran his fingers through the gorgeous thrums rippling from sleeve and thigh.
Several people shuffled to attention as Beaumont strode into the bridge, his oak-leaved cap tilted rakishly over his eyes.
The jaygee took one hand from the vibrating gunmount to cock his cap rakishly over one eye.
On her left stood one as straight and tall as an Italian cedar, somewhat slender, one hand rakishly on the hilt of his smallsword, the other straightening his bronze-embroidered waistcoat.
Purple satin kerchiefs were tied around their necks and debonair straw boaters were rakishly angled on top of their heads.
He straightened his doublet, made sure his linen undersleeves were still white and clean, and tilted his cap even more rakishly over his brow.
As though divining Grey's wish, Quarry settled his wig more firmly, then took his cloak from the book by the door and swirled it rakishly about his shoulders.
The men were gentlemen all—she heard it in their accents, invariably refined, and saw it in their clothes—many wore their dominos loose, more like a cloak, in some cases thrown rakishly back over one shoulder.
However, he caught sight of himself in the looking-glass over the hat-stand, with the rusty black bonnet perched rakishly over one eye, and he changed his mind and went very quickly and humbly upstairs to the Rat’.
When he grinned up at her, the hat tipped rakishly on his sweat-curled hair, and the light of the devil in those golden eyes, Delia softened.
Tachyon arrived dressed like a foreign correspondent from some film noir classic, in a trench coat covered with belts, buttons, and epaulettes, a snap-brim fedora rakishly tilted to one side.
Trenchard, having relighted his pipe, and set his hat rakishly atop his golden wig, strolled up the High Street, swinging his long cane very much like a gentleman taking the air in quest of an appetite for supper.