Synonyms for riff-raff
All synonyms
Noun
1. Populace — the rabble; crowds; people of a low, disreputable or undesirable class or position
rabble, dregs, mob, crowd, trash, masses, populace, proletariat, refuse, ragtag and bobtail, canaille, lumpenproletariat
Definitions
- n. 1
The rabble; crowds; people of a low, disreputable or undesirable class or position.
They started charging a modest fee in an effort to keep the riffraff out.
Related words
- Word family
- riffraffish riff-raffy
- Other spellings
- riffraff
Forms
- Plural
- riff-raffs → rabbles, mobs, crowds, trashes…
Example sentences
- crowd The crowd protested against racial discrimination.
- mob The mob gathered round the car like so many flies.
- rabble Tom called the striking workers a rabble.
- dregs She poured some cold dregs of tea into the two cups.
By length
- 3 letters
- mob1
- 5 letters
- crowd1, trash1, dregs1
- 6 letters
- refuse2, masses2, rabble2
- 8 letters
- populace3, canaille
- 11 letters
- proletariat5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (refuse2 = 2 syllables).