How to Use playboy in a Sentence
playboy
noun- She was dating a rich American playboy who was seeing two other women at the same time.
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What’s more, Diego wasn’t even the biggest playboy in the program.
— Molly Glick, Popular Science, 4 Feb. 2020 -
And how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.
— Andy Meek, BGR, 3 Mar. 2022 -
The truth is that, for better or worse, New York likes a debauched playboy.
— Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 8 May 2018 -
The legendary playboy was falling for a girl, one girl.
— Ew Staff Updated, EW.com, 18 Mar. 2024 -
The actor plays Leonardo, a playboy manchild who is the only son of the third richest man in the world.
— Randy Cordova, azcentral, 3 May 2018 -
In truth, these Drakes are the same: the agoniste, the uncertain playboy, the tortured boy king.
— Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 2 July 2018 -
The playboy, super-shagger described (again by Hamann) as the 'Swedish James Bond'.
— SI.com, 14 June 2019 -
The 90-year-old playboy, who called the mansion his home and workplace for more than 40 years, struck a deal to live on the property for the rest of his life.
— Whitney Robinson, Town & Country, 28 Sep. 2017 -
DeHaan feels miscast, not the rakish playboy charmer as this film tries to present him.
— Katie Walsh, idahostatesman, 20 July 2017 -
Billionaires' bolt-hole, playboys' paradise and, for one week at the end of May, host to the most glamorous motor race in the world.
— Matthew Knight, CNN, 25 May 2017 -
My ambition is to be a playboy now, to be shot by a jealous husband at 95 years of age.
— oregonlive.com, 22 July 2019 -
The playboy dream ended abruptly in 1755, when he was thrown into prison.
— Clare Bucknell, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022 -
In one scene, Daniel, the show's rakish playboy, offers a beer to his cleaning lady.
— Harrison S. Key, Town & Country, 9 May 2017 -
Sharp and earnest, Em is well aware of Dexter’s reputation as a playboy.
— Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 6 Feb. 2024 -
Sure, Bruce Wayne can fight and has money to throw around but the reckless billionaire playboy façade is only one part of the Batman myth.
— Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 17 May 2019 -
Most found the thirty-five-year-old playboy irresistible.
— Tara Knight, The Root, 13 May 2018 -
Hugh Hefner, the ultimate playboy who frolicked through life long enough to become an icon in his own time, died Wednesday night at the age of 91.
— Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2017 -
Fayed, the son of Harrod’s department store owner Mohamed Fayed, was a rich playboy.
— Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 17 May 2023 -
The highlight of the social calendar is a mushroom-picker’s ball, and the favorite sport of every man from the local playboy to the parish priest is hunting.
— Julian Lucas, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019 -
But in mannerisms and voice, this guy is too tight, too cautious to be the extravagant, escapist playboy he is said to be.
— Ben Brantley, New York Times, 31 May 2018 -
Even now, the twists and turns in this story of a woman who teams up with a worldly playboy to solve her husband’s murder will keep you guessing until the very end.
— Amanda Mitchell, Marie Claire, 2 Feb. 2017 -
Ingrid is also at the center of a love triangle that includes wealthy playboy Nick Laren (played by Rob Heaps).
— Andy Meek, BGR, 28 Aug. 2022 -
Buss was a playboy on a lark who was rarely in the office other than public appearances, if a benign one who fell in line behind Kupchak.
— Mark Heisler, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2017 -
Even the N-word video from Morgan Wallen, the industry’s platinum playboy, seemed to present only a minor hiccup.
— Andrea Williams, Vulture, 28 June 2021 -
Trump, then known as a playboy real estate developer, offered to take the project over.
— Philip Bump, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2019 -
One Semmi scene was never going to make a return: that shirtless, playboy-in-the-hot tub moment from the original movie.
— Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2021 -
Back near the kitchen Italian playboy Gianni Agnelli squired a woman so breathtaking even the gay maître d' went weak at the knees.
— Jay Cheshes, Town & Country, 6 Feb. 2013 -
People think that beauty is an enhanced ass, fake boobs and long, beautiful playboy hair.
— Chris Willman, Variety, 1 Feb. 2023 -
Ultra-wealthy playboy Bruce Wayne only acquires the very best tools to support his vocation of dressing up in a mask and cape and serving justice to the criminals of Gotham City.
— Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 6 Aug. 2024
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