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Rakish vs Rawish - What's the difference?

rakish | rawish |

As adjectives the difference between rakish and rawish

is that rakish is dashingly, carelessly, or sportingly unconventional or stylish; jaunty; characterized by a devil-may-care unconventionality; having a somewhat disreputable quality or appearance while rawish is somewhat raw.

rakish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • dashingly, carelessly, or sportingly unconventional or stylish; jaunty; characterized by a devil-may-care unconventionality; having a somewhat disreputable quality or appearance.
    • ... the rakish Dennis Quaid, a Houston native who is moving to Texas in a couple of years and wants it to become "the new Hollywood." (Houston Chronicle, 6/8/2007)
  • (dated) like a rake; dissolute; profligate
  • * Macaulay
    • The arduous task of converting a rakish lover.

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    rawish

    English

    Adjective

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  • Somewhat raw.
    • (Marston)
    (Webster 1913)