• IPA: /ˈɹeɪkɪʃ/

rakish

1. Dashingly, carelessly, or sportingly unconventional or stylish; jaunty; characterized by a devil-may-care unconventionality; having a somewhat disreputable quality or appearance.
   • 2007, Houston Chronicle, 6/8/2007

     the rakish Dennis Quaid, a Houston native who is moving to Texas in a couple of years and wants it to become "the new Hollywood."

2. (dated) Like a rake; dissolute; profligate.
   • 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch. 14:

     The door was open, and the hall was blocked up by a grand piano, a harp, and several other musical instruments in cases, all in progress of removal, and all looking rakish in the daylight.

   • 1911, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Goldsmith,_Oliver Goldsmith, Oliver]”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:

     The arduous task of converting a rakish lover.

• French: négligé

• French: débauché