"riffraffish" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From riffraff + -ish.",
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          "ref": "2009, Tess Mallory, Highland Rebel, Penguin, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2018, John Strausbaugh, Victory City […] , Hachette UK, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Over the next few years the quiet, bespectacled composer and the riffraffish writer collaborated on Mahagonny and Threepenny Opera before falling out with each other.",
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        "Resembling or characteristic of riffraff."
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        "(informal, somewhat derogatory) Resembling or characteristic of riffraff."
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          "word": "riff-raffy"
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          "ref": "2009, Tess Mallory, Highland Rebel, Penguin, →ISBN:",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, John Strausbaugh, Victory City […] , Hachette UK, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Over the next few years the quiet, bespectacled composer and the riffraffish writer collaborated on Mahagonny and Threepenny Opera before falling out with each other.",
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        "Resembling or characteristic of riffraff."
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        "(informal, somewhat derogatory) Resembling or characteristic of riffraff."
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