rakishly
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]rakishly (comparative more rakishly, superlative most rakishly)
- 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.