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A fashionable or wealthy man of immoral or promiscuous habits.
‘her dissolute rakehell of a son, Sir Felix’
‘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.’