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rakish

Nautical (of a ship or boat) having lines suggestive of speed
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Quickening his pace, he looked down at his rivals, pulled his egret-plumed cap over his eyes then tossed it back on his head; then cocking it rakishly and curling his moustache, he marched forth.
Eskandar sits nearby in scrubs, a surgical mask rakishly pushed onto his blue surgical cap, and moves a mouse pointer over a spot at the center of one of four images displayed on a monitor, depicting the patient's brain.
Though the rakishly maned Canuck tends to keep a fairly low profile for a prominent businessman with a fortune in excess of $3 billion, he was launched into the showbiz spotlight this spring when it was announced he's gone into partnership with veteran producer Joel Silver to develop, produce and/or finance a full slate of feature films, television fare and digital content.
Once home to the rich French plantation owners who settled in Louisiana centuries ago, with French street signs still surviving at many intersections, its rakishly distressed buildings and iconic ironwork balconies are, in fact, of Spanish design.
Her legs sprawl apart, staking out even more space; in the process, the legs are rakishly displayed, framed by her petticoat, a private item of apparel deliberately made public.
The new Fabia looks rakishly sporty, sitting flatter and wider with a rear spoiler and nifty little radio antenna.
David Walton stars as rakishly charming man-child Will Freeman in NBC's About a Boy--based on the Nick Hornby novel that was made into a Hugh Grant movie--which returns October 14 for a second season.
As related expertly and thrillingly by Bainbridge, the public were barely aware that in Auckland there was an underworld of "gangsters" who dressed in suits, wore Trilby George Raft-style hats rakishly angled over their brows and spoke in pseudo-American accents.
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