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How to use riffraff in a sentence

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

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That is the defining feature that separates a genius from the common riffraff.
All of them came to the taverns and noisy and smoky pubs to amuse themselves, mingle with the riffraff, or dream about distant horizons.
But now there were more and more riffraff enjoying the deep cool beneath the bridge.
Availing itself of this opportunity, the statement sternly warned the US and Japanese authorities and the riffraff, their poor lackeys, to act with discretion.
For instance, when everybody was buying OC192 fiber optic cable and wrapping it around the world a million times, any little riffraff engineering company could hop into the market.
I have seen them behell a saint for ignorantly drinking an alcoholic drink. Beshrew the sanctimonious riffraff!
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.
Still, when the professors saw one another at the staff club or at church or at a faculty meeting, they were careful to moan about the riffraff from town coming onto their sacred campus to steal.
In town there was a professional summer theatre, a new thing at the time, which some people were enthusiastic about and others worried about, fearing that it would bring in riffraff.
They started charging a modest fee in an effort to keep the riffraff out.
Examples from Classical Literature
Both in town and country, the riffraff of the houseboat element are in disfavor.
We'll destroy Marsport before we'll give in to a doped-up crowd of riffraff!
If he was of the riffraff of the streets, as his companions were, he was somehow different.
There was a club in those days in Papeete, where the pearlers, traders, captains, and riffraff of South Sea adventurers forgathered.
Ample proof, however, exists that they were but the riffraff of the Order.
He would entertain there the factor of Taiohae, captains of wandering traders, and all the best of the South Pacific riffraff.
It was easy to tell the old-timers from the riffraff of newcomers.
It brought to the scene a mixed throng of the riffraff of the camp.
A throng of the riffraff of the Street swarmed in front of the building.
Where are those Cubs and Pirates and all the rest of that riffraff?
The crowd said that Washington sponsored the resolution with such riffraff as the European Union, Japan and the Park Geun-hye group in South Korea.
The event was organised by riffraff, a Teesside club night which has been running for 11 years with its regular home now at Middlesbrough's Medicine Bar, on Corporation Road.
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