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raffish

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of raffish

lacking in refinement or good taste

the dowager cringed at the thought of raffish tourists in rough boots tromping all over her Persian rugs

Synonyms of raffish

coarse, common, crass, crude, gross, ill-bred, illiberal [archaic], incult, insensible, low, lowbred, lowbrow, rough, rough-hewn, roughneck, rude, rugged, tasteless, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar

Words Related to raffish

boorish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, loutish, ungentlemanly

clumsy, lubberly, lumpish, oafish

inconsiderate, indelicate, insensitive, thoughtless

countrified (also countryfied), provincial, rustic (also rustical), unsophisticated

graceless, inelegant, tacky

animallike, barbaric, barbarous, uncivilized

mannerless, unmannered, unmannerly

Near Antonyms of raffish

aristocratic, courtly, patrician

elegant, graceful, restrained

considerate, gracious, sensitive, thoughtful

citified, sophisticated, urbane

Antonyms of raffish

civilized, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polished, refined, smooth, tasteful, ultrarefined, well-bred

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