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Synonyms & 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 for 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
- countrified
- (also countryfied),
- provincial,
- rustic
- (also rustical),
- unsophisticated
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“Raffish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raffish. Accessed 20 Oct. 2021.
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The first known use of raffish was in 1795
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