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How to use rakishly in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word rakishly? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
He's clad in a flannie, and has a Santa hat somewhat rakishly perched on his bonce.
Was that really how I looked, I wondered, how I appeared to others, the gabardine sitting rakishly on the shoulders, the sleeves hanging free?
Just before they are about to pull a major swindle, Rockwell appears wearing an absurd Stetson tipped rakishly forward over his eyes.
Two places away, wearing his lemon-squeezer hat far more rakishly, marched Malcolm, whom I didn't like very much.
She smiled up at him, smoothing down the unruly cowlick that rested atop his mop of rakishly tousled brunette hair.
Within minutes, everyone around the dinner table was wearing a paper hat at a rakishly jaunty angle and looking expectantly in my direction.
He was dressed nicely in black slacks and a royal blue dress shirt with the top few buttons rakishly undone, exposing a bit of his sculpted chest.
Six years earlier, Dean – as yet paunch-free and with a rakishly floppy head of hair – is a furniture remover with old-fashioned romantic dreams.
A thick fascicle of dreadlocks sheathed in wax thread is slung rakishly over his right shoulder and spliced to an equally long but spindlier cable of beard.
Once in, I sat on the grass, hoping, hoping, hoping to get a touch of the ball, as it sped over the so, so smooth field, my feet occasionally, rakishly, rebelliously, resting over the rope to show just how cool I was.
Costume drama at its most rakishly louche, Catherine Breillat's The Last Mistress is unashamedly a bodice ripper – although in this case, it's the man's bodice that would get ripped, if he wore one.
After that, he became a rakishly dressed pirate.
Dave has quietly enjoyed an entire bottle of red wine before coming to the dinner table, and now he is wearing his MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN hat rakishly tilted over one eye.
But there he was in McKenzie's show, fleshed out with eerie naturalism in a group of colored-pencil portraits that depict him posing rakishly in plus fours and trench coat.
Rakishly thin, he wore tattered cords that rode half way up his skeleton legs.
Examples from Classical Literature
He was in evening dress, and an opera hat was set rakishly on the back of his head.
Her shawl was dragged to one side, and her bonnet sat rakishly.
The new Fabia looks rakishly sporty, sitting flatter and wider with a rear spoiler and nifty little radio antenna.
These manage to be rakishly charming and sleekly gentlemanly, especially in muted browns and greens.
The mantel's chastely severe outline was ingloriously veiled behind some pert drapery drawn rakishly askew like the sashes of the Amazonian ballet.
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