Here, they were protected from the riffraff, the neighborhood, even from Mother Nature, in the form of floods or biting insects.

NEWYORKER: Shauntrelle

Still, when the professors saw one another at the staff club or at church or at a faculty meeting, they were careful to moan about the riffraff from town coming onto their sacred campus to steal.

NEWYORKER: Cell One

Van Hoogstraten has called the Ramblers' Association "riffraff" and "the great unwashed" during the long dispute.

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In town there was a professional summer theatre, a new thing at the time, which some people were enthusiastic about and others worried about, fearing that it would bring in riffraff.

NEWYORKER: Gravel