raffishness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for raffishness
Noun
  • If senior figures display rudeness or disrespect, employees may assume that such behavior is acceptable, making selective enforcement seem arbitrary and undermining of trust.
    Andrew Binns, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • With nearly 400 responses recounting long waits for a check to outright rudeness, customers detailed what pushes them from their usual tipping habits to a complete cutoff.
    Darlin Tillery, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The referee threw a flag on the play, calling a 15-yard unnecessary roughness penalty on Tart.
    Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Speaking to the media Monday ahead of the Chiefs’ game against the Philadelphia Eagles, Reid was asked about the NFL rule that called for an unnecessary roughness penalty as opposed to an automatic suspension.
    Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Brain rot has become unavoidable, its grossness ubiquitous.
    Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The coarseness of your grounds is determined by the width of the space between the two grinding burrs.
    BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2025
  • In particular, there’s a stunning coarseness and ugliness in the Republican Party today.
    Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 18 Aug. 2025
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“Raffishness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raffishness. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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