Meaning of riffraffish | Babel Free

Definitions

Resembling or characteristic of riffraff.

derogatory, informal

Examples

“What kind of general allowed the riffraff off the streets to wait in his office? And he hated to say it, but Ellie looked extremely riffraffish.”

“Over the next few years the quiet, bespectacled composer and the riffraffish writer collaborated on Mahagonny and Threepenny Opera before falling out with each other.”

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