Definition of rakehell in English:

noun

• A fashionable or wealthy man of immoral or promiscuous habits.

  ‘her dissolute rakehell of a son, Sir Felix’

  More example sentences

  • ‘If an infamous rakehell like Lord Braunfield could undergo such a remarkable and genuine reformation, surely there was hope for the likes of Lord Ashbourne?’
  • ‘He ingratiates himself into the life of the rich rakehell, emulating his actions, his speech, his body language.’
  • ‘An hour at Brooks', in the company of the rakehells, proved to be more than I could endure.’
  • ‘Farnol's usual spunky heroine is on the run from the rakehell and drunkard Lord Barrasdale, who would marry her by force to claim her lands.’
  • ‘Finney was a young and rambunctious British actor, playing a young and exceedingly virile rakehell.’
  • ‘He was eighteen, and a rakehell, and the disparity between his character and his appearance is a familiar failure of fit that has come to give beauty a bad name.’

  Synonyms

  playboy, libertine, profligate

  View synonyms