They started charging a modest fee in an effort to keep the riffraff out.
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Riffraff
//ˈɹɪfɹæf//
Synonyms for "riffraff" (83 found)
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Closest matches (17)
Strong matches (25)
Related words (41)
Related word relations
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3 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
2 entriesrelated to
2 entriesTranslations
77 translations across 27 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- συρφετός noun (the rabble)
- σύρφαξ noun (the rabble)
Arabic
1 entries- رَعَاع noun (the rabble)
Catalan
2 entries- gentalla noun (the rabble)
- trepa noun (the rabble)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 下等人 noun (the rabble)
- 廢物 /废物 noun (the rabble)
- 流氓 noun (the rabble)
- 烏合之眾 /乌合之众 noun (the rabble)
Czech
4 entries- chátra noun (the rabble)
- lůza noun (the rabble)
- pakáž noun (the rabble)
- sebranka noun (the rabble)
Danish
2 entries- pak noun (the rabble)
- pøbel noun (the rabble)
Dutch
4 entries- gepeupel noun (the rabble)
- geteisem noun (the rabble)
- rapalje noun (the rabble)
- schorremorrie noun (the rabble)
Estonian
1 entries- rahvarämps noun (the rabble)
Finnish
2 entries- rahvas noun (the rabble)
- roskaväki noun (the rabble)
French
4 entries- canaille noun (the rabble)
- commun des mortels noun (the rabble)
- masses noun (the rabble)
- plèbe noun (the rabble)
Galician
1 entries- xentualla noun (the rabble)
German
3 entries- Plebs noun (the rabble)
- Pöbel noun (the rabble)
- gemeines Volk noun (the rabble)
Greek
1 entries- αληταρία noun (the rabble)
Icelandic
3 entries- illþýði noun (the rabble)
- pakk noun (the rabble)
- skríll noun (the rabble)
Irish
3 entries- daoscar noun (the rabble)
- gramaisc noun (the rabble)
- sloigisc noun (the rabble)
Italian
3 entries- coatto noun (the rabble)
- lazzarone noun (the rabble)
- tamarro noun (the rabble)
Japanese
3 entries- 下層民 noun (the rabble)
- 下層階級 noun (the rabble)
- 有象無象 noun (the rabble)
Portuguese
2 entries- gentalha noun (the rabble)
- ralé noun (the rabble)
Romanian
2 entries- gloată noun (the rabble)
- plebe noun (the rabble)
Russian
3 entries- бы́дло noun (the rabble)
- сбро́д noun (the rabble)
- че́рнь noun (the rabble)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- raja noun (the rabble)
- šljam noun (the rabble)
- ȍloš noun (the rabble)
- о̏лош noun (the rabble)
Slovak
3 entries- bagáž noun (the rabble)
- chamraď noun (the rabble)
- zberba noun (the rabble)
Spanish
4 entries- chusma noun (the rabble)
- flaite noun (the rabble)
- gente de baja estofa noun (the rabble)
- gentualla noun (the rabble)
Swedish
4 entries- kreti och pleti noun (the rabble)
- pack noun (the rabble)
- patrask noun (the rabble)
- pöbel noun (the rabble)
Turkish
1 entries- ayaktakımı noun (the rabble)
Volapük
1 entries- lupöp noun (the rabble)
Welsh
2 entries- gwehilion noun (the rabble)
- poblach noun (the rabble)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Agent Beeman (Noah Emmerich): I think we got him. / Special Agent Gaad (Richard Thomas): Who? / Agent Beeman: I-I-I don't know. The guy who killed Chris, the--the Russians, the whole damn thing maybe. / Special Agent Gaad: You want to sit down? / Agent Beeman: The guy from the salvage yard who hocked the ring, and he does business with some riffraff from the projects.
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Mom: [Walks away with King Pridemoor.] / King Knight: 'MOM, WAIT! ..... MOM!! *SIGH* WELL, FINALLY, THE RIFF-RAFF... AND MY MOM, ARE GONE.'
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