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Raffish N Well Dressed Presented Slightly Disreputable Unconventional Hand

Word raffish
Definition n. Well-dressed or presented but slightly disreputable or unconventional.
Sentence With her right hand holding her left arm behind her untanned back, the lesser nymphet, a diaphanous darling, would be all eyes, as the pavonine sun was all eyes on the gravel under the flowering trees, while in the midst of that oculate paradise, my freckled and raffish lass skipped.
Source Lolita, II.2, p. 173

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