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rakehell

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adjective

variants or rakehelly

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for rakehell
Noun
  • The days of pandering to perverts and woke PFCs are over.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 16 Feb. 2025
  • Another of the girls called Essex a pervert, which prompted their mother to ask more questions.
    Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • One of those earlier safety campaigns, in June of last year, pertained to trim pieces along the exterior of the trunk bed that could come loose while driving.
    Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Secure loose outdoor items and adjust plans as necessary so you're not caught outside.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacramento Bee, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • This 24-hour dive near Uptown is for true degenerates looking to extend the party to unholy hours.
    David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 28 Jan. 2025
  • At another point, a surface-to-air missile takes out a passenger airliner, something that really happened — but the attack is as purposeless here as the tragic original event, other than to remind us that Valet, who surveys the wreckage for valuables, is a degenerate.
    Boris Fishman, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Lars von Trier’s The Kingdom is a soap opera about a hospital where the doctors aren’t good-looking or vibrating with noble sentiment but generally corrupt or insane.
    Adam Thirlwell, The New York Review of Books, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The Filipino-language thriller follows Dahlia, a disillusioned police aide who steals money from the safe of her corrupt police chief boss, distributing it to slum dwellers whose homes were destroyed.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Start at the Edges of the Roof Assemble your roof rake, then start at one corner of the roof, placing the roof rake a couple of feet from the edge.
    Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Use a bow rake, with forged metal tines, to grade and smooth the terrain.
    Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Someone who knows someone who’s terribly dissolute, and knows it, and is witty and verbal enough to talk about it, is just a ball to write.
    Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 15 Mar. 2025
  • The Human Fear is their fantastic tribute to misspent youth and an even more dissolute adulthood.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 11 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Majors also played the mega villain He Who Remains in Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Loki and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumaia.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 26 Mar. 2025
  • As previously announced, Robert Downey Jr. will be back as the villain Doctor Doom instead of Iron Man.
    Michaela Zee, Variety, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • That bicorne, worn at a rakish, sideways angle, as synonymous with him as his battlefield victories.
    Lysanne Currie, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The coupe was a relatively recent addition to the normal GV80 SUV, sacrificing a little volume at the back for a rakish ducktail rear end.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 3 Mar. 2025
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“Rakehell.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rakehell. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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