riffraff

riffraff

Undesirable, disreputable, or vulgar people, often used in a condescending manner. I wouldn't be seen in a place like that, there's a lot of riffraff that hang out around there.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • raff
  • mansplain
  • jaw (one) down
  • jaw down
  • jaw someone down
  • jawed
  • nose in the air, have one's
  • have (one's) nose in the air
  • have nose in the air
  • set down as
References in periodicals archive
The riffraff marquee will be headlined by top DJ and producer Steve Lawler, who regularly plays all over the world.
Top DJs head to club festival; MARQUEE DAY & NITE MINI FEST, MIDDLESBROUGH
And why do we let the riffraff in, giving them housing and money, when a lot of these young men are ne'er-do-wells like Karasniqi, who often resort to crime for their money and violence for their sex?
Man of The People column: We're all losers in race game
Hitchens rallied to the defense of October Surprise theory last week, saying that although Ari Ben-Menashe, Jamshid Hashemi and Richard Brenneke (whose bogus testimony he once extolled as the smoking gun in the conspiracy) were "habitually deceitful riffraff," they had all been right about some things, thus proving their credentials as sources to be believed at one level.
...And egg on the face of the tiger
There have been midweek parties there until 6amand all sorts of riffraff there.
NEIGHBOURS' PARTY HELL AS BOY, 15, GIVEN HOUSE; He got council home after mum died
* TOP clubbing night riffraff returns tonight with a stellar line-up.
Queen of Americana holds court; Also playing: Ashleigh Flynn
And yet I know my neglect has resulted in their hanging out with garage sale riffraff. Had the state intervened, Hemingway and others might have well been placed in foster care.
Book lover finally gains shelf esteem
This is the kind of deep, popular trust that riffraff such as Roger Ailes and Lee Atwater will never understand and, more important, never be able to buy.
Minority report
TOP clubbing night riffraff returns next week with a stellar line-up.
Tanzmann is riffraff man; Clubbing: Riffraff feat Matthias Tanzmann
No wonder the Geordie attache for cultural affairs in the Midlands milked the applause from the riffraff in the Eric Hollies stand like a dairy maid, doffing his cap and waving to his adoring subjects when he returned to his patrol on the boundary between overs.
PICKLED BY ONIONS; BRING HOME THE ASHES 3RD TEST, DAY 2 FROM EDGBASTON
Why, wonder the more cynical among us, should we care about such "riffraff"?
Program gave life, yet at risk
Contrast this with the emerging "Reagan doctrine," under whose precepts any rabble or riffraff is good enough.
Minority report
Monthly house music shindig Riffraff returns to the Arena in Middlesbrough tomorrow night.
Sound Bites
Then get rid of the riffraff and give people a place to shop, said Rose Zehner, owner of Rose's Diner.
Donation kick-starts arts center
One should not have to mix with the riffraff. One might even be visible from the cheap seats.
Routledge: DOWNFALL OF A WRITE CHARLIE
EXCLUSIVE RAMBLINGS OF AN ARROGANT BULLY The only purpose of having wealth like mine is to separate oneself from riffraff I haven't physically had someone's b***ks cut off.
NASTY NICK: THE MILLIONAIRE KILLER: Ginger people are anarchists, ramblers are all herberts, tenants are pure filth, smokers have sex problems and women are just carriers of children