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(rɪf ræf) also riffraff uncountable nounIf you refer to a group of people as riff-raff, you disapprove of them because you think they are not respectable. [disapproval]Synonyms: rabble [derogatory], undesirables, scum, hoi polloi More Synonyms of riff-raff Examples of 'riff-raff' in a sentenceriff-raff It keeps the riff-raff out.But it keeps the riff-raff away.How the riff-raff howled at my discomfiture.But well worth it to avoid the riff-raff.By any definition this is a derogatory term (rabble, riff-raff, shabby, motley, dishevelled, etc).They were a mixture of the keen, the desperate and riff-raff.Stiff admission fees kept the riff-raff off the piers in those early days.Then there was the taste for 'solid' travellers, not tourist riff-raff.But then, the riff-raff were very definitely excluded from this gathering of high rollers. Synonyms of 'riff-raff'rabble, undesirables, scum, hoi polloi More Synonyms of riff-raff |