Raffish /(rȧf"ĭsh)/

Raff·ish

Raffish

a.
  1. Resembling, or having the character of, raff, or a raff; worthless; low.
    A sad, raffish, disreputable character.
  2. Mildly disreputable; disregarding conventional morality; charmingly dissolute{3} or nonconformist.
    Tales of his [Ted Kennedy's] drinking and raffish behavior have become part of his public persona, often lumped under a vaster damnation known as “the character issue”.
    — Rick Atkinson, Washington Post, Sept. 29, 1990
  3. Dissolute; rakish.
    Of all such places, Santa Fe may well be the least raffish. At least in the off-season, it's a town that goes to bed early, showing all the prudent reserve of a city of bankers and claims adjusters. In the historic center, a visitor searches in vain for tawdry traces of the hard-drinking, wild-womanizing, heavy-gambling cowboy town this once must have been.
    — Brad Leithauser (“Santa Fe”, in New York Times Magazine / May 13, 2001).
    Over the years, it [Macau] has maintained a downright raffish atmosphere, complete with warring gangsters.
    — Yvette Ziols.
  4. Vulgarly gaudy; cheap and tawdry; as, a tendency toward gaudy jewelry, bright colors and generally raffish dress.
  5. Appealing to or frequented by dissolute or disreputable people; as, a raffish night club.