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riffraff
[ rif-raf ]
noun
- people, or a group of people, regarded as disreputable or worthless:
a pack of riffraff.
- the lowest classes; rabble:
the riffraff of the city.
- trash; rubbish.
adjective
- worthless, disreputable, or trashy.
riffraff
/ 藞谤瑟蹿藢谤忙蹿 /
noun
- worthless people, esp collectively; rabble
- dialect.worthless rubbish
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of riffraff1
Example Sentences
The first half of the film finds our riffraff joining forces to escape Valentina鈥檚 death trap; the second is a parable about mental illness where the metaphors take command over the plot.
He has some friends 鈥 acquaintances, really 鈥 whom he hates, mentally labeling them 鈥渢he riffraff, the vulgarians, the slobs.鈥
She associated Georgia鈥檚 capital city with 鈥渃rime鈥 and 鈥渞iffraff,鈥 similar to how Trump once disparaged Atlanta as 鈥渃rime infested鈥 and 鈥渇alling apart.鈥
Just before the riots he had also responded to a rowdy reception committee in one banlieue by calling them racaille - riffraff.
Indeed, this 鈥渟avage,鈥 as Shakespeare took pains to note in his complicated depiction of Caliban, is a good deal more civilized than the drunken riffraff with whom he falls into cahoots.
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