raffishly in a sentence

Examples

1. They become bitter rivals, competing for the attention of the clamoring, soulless press and that of their mutual slickster lawyer, Billy Flynn ( a raffishly charming Richard Gere ).
2. They can't go on, they won't go on, they go on-- sometimes raffishly, like Gladys, sometimes in quiet triumph, like Myra Tolliver.
3. Weinstock may have been an intransigent opponent, but Zer, a slight, handsome young man who wears his jet black hair parted raffishly in the middle, was no less difficult.
4. She is folded gracefully on the sofa of a Manhattan hotel suite, looking raffishly chic in a black frock coat, miniskirt, boots and stockings that reveal an expanse of slender thigh.
5. Though the third season ended before last year's terrorist attacks, tonight's episode refers to Sept . 11 in a way that's both matter-of-fact and raffishly funny.
6. The Las Vegas that Sally Denton and Roger Morris depict in their portentous and conspiracy-minded new book, " The Money and the Power, " isn't the raffishly glamorous place of Rat Pack legend.
7. Since Dunph, as his friends call him, has not the faintest desire to make good in this setting, his irreverence sets the tone for Peter Farrelly's laid-back, raffishly funny 1988 novel and for this eminently likable film version.
8. "Will you look, " she exclaimed, gesturing to bank after bank of computer screens, each surrounded by fake family photos and dog-eared issues of Playboy and The Financial Times to give the desk space its own raffishly personal character.
9. Zach Taylor was " Old Rough and Ready, " raffishly swaggering and impulsive; and the more methodical Winfield Scott was " Old Fuss and Feathers, " the stern disciplinarian who shaped the United States Army into a formidable body during the War of 1812.
10. And one of the exhibition's high points is an exceptional series of black-and-white pictures by Dayanita Singh that reveal middle-class urban families at home, cross-dressed eunuchs wafting raffishly through the New Delhi streets and Bombay film stars being given last-minute dance lessons before the cameras roll.