as in pervert
a person who has sunk below the normal moral standard
a resort popular with wealthy rakehells
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or rakehelly
as in loose
having or showing lowered moral character or standards
a rakehell rock band that was notorious for trashing virtually every hotel suite they ever stayed in
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Noun
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Another of the girls called Essex a pervert, which prompted their mother to ask more questions.—
Keri Blakinger,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Dec. 2024 -
The imagery is intended to mock and reflect modern Japan in some way — from the overworked salarymen gleefully staging suicidal leaps off of buildings to the schoolgirls (who, in the dream, have cell phones for heads) exposing themselves to perverts (who also have cell phones for heads).—
Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
28 Sep. 2024
Adjective
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The ski lift is 15 meters (more than 49 feet) high, the Spanish Civil Guard said in a post on X. Part of its structure collapsed after one of its pulleys became loose, Spanish public broadcaster RTVE reported.—
Catherine Nicholls,
CNN,
18 Jan. 2025
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The remaining market and international signings will shake loose after the most significant domino tumbled.—
Bryce Miller,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Jan. 2025
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On The Challenge: Battle of the Eras, these now-geriatric degenerates will duke it out for the only prize worth fighting for: making their kids proud.—
Emma Sharpe,
Vulture,
14 Aug. 2024
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There’s the medieval brutality: Gómez was a homicidal degenerate who collected torture methods instead of stamps.—
Tim Padgett,
Orlando Sentinel,
9 Aug. 2024
Adjective
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The essential modern text is Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the 2010 Supreme Court decision that equates money with speech, resulting in an ever more corrupt system of campaign finance.—
David Remnick,
The New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2025
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The only alternative to withdrawal was defending a pathetically inept and corrupt government in Kabul until the sun exploded, which was really no alternative at all.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
Newsweek,
9 Jan. 2025
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The company has also given more than 300 wildfire response items including gloves, goggles, boots, respirators, shovels, rakes, axes, smoke pumps, sifters, and medical items for burns and heat.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
13 Jan. 2025
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Every week or so, rake leaves away from the stems and add them to your compost pile.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
24 Sep. 2024
Adjective
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The Human Fear is their fantastic tribute to misspent youth and an even more dissolute adulthood.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
11 Jan. 2025
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Imbert reminds us of social change and collapse via brief flashbacks to Pierre’s dissolute life before his fall.—
Armond White,
National Review,
1 Nov. 2024
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Also tossed in are picturesque but gratuitous use of famous tourist landmarks as background, near-superheroic training montages, credible intimate character dynamics, a ruthless villain (Johan Heldenbergh as Vanaken) and action that in the home stretch goes absurdly over-the-top.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
13 Jan. 2025
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And though Young and (especially) the perpetrators of the massacre are clearly the villains of the piece, their past history at least partly explains their choices.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
10 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Cécile, the willful teenage narrator, is vacationing on the Côte d’Azur with her rakish widowed father, Raymond.—
airmail.news,
airmail.news,
17 Aug. 2024
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The Vanquish cuts a rakish profile that is underscored by a wheelbase that is 3.1 inches longer than that of the DBS, which was Aston’s most recent V12 model in the Vanquish’s grand touring class.—
Dan Carney,
Popular Science,
7 Nov. 2024
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“Rakehell.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rakehell. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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