as in corrupt
having or showing lowered moral character or standards
within a few short years their rakish son had squandered the family fortune on hard liquor and fast cars
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Recent Examples of rakish
Who better, then, to pry Eve loose than a rangy, rakish music journalist (Benjamin Bratt) whose game includes unironic hat-wearing and — like a dispiriting number of men in his age bracket — the unembarrassed deployment of Stephen Stills lyrics?
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Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Cécile, the willful teenage narrator, is vacationing on the Côte d’Azur with her rakish widowed father, Raymond.
—airmail.news, 17 Aug. 2024
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
In 2003, Pickford entered into an agreement with John Rose, a rakish businessman and treasure hunter from Great Yarmouth who wanted to find the Gloucester.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Cécile, the willful teenage narrator, is vacationing on the Côte d’Azur with her rakish widowed father, Raymond.
—airmail.news, 17 Aug. 2024
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
In 2003, Pickford entered into an agreement with John Rose, a rakish businessman and treasure hunter from Great Yarmouth who wanted to find the Gloucester.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rakish
Adjective
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On top of that, Adams has sagging poll numbers, low fundraising dollars and the appearance of a corrupt bargain with President Trump.—
Chris Sommerfeldt,
New York Daily News,
6 Apr. 2025
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Ellen Pompeo, Bella Ramsey, Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Paul Feig & More Based on the New York Times best-selling comic book by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, The Boys follows a group of vigilantes who aim to keep corrupt superheroes in check.—
Ryan Fleming,
Deadline,
6 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Apple spent years ignoring RCS, allowing iPhones to offer a degraded messaging experience with Android users.—
Ryan Whitwam,
ArsTechnica,
1 Apr. 2025
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Figure 4 shows an example of a daytime camera image in degraded visibility conditions, of a 1 m wide buoy at a range of 2 nautical miles (3.6 miles).—
Sabbir Rangwala,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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This has not been a good week for United, which was also accused of trying to shut off the ventilator of a sick one-year-old child.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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By many accounts, Planned Parenthood is an incurably sick beast whose time is nearing its end.—
Erik Baptist,
National Review,
28 Mar. 2025
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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
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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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Trailing by three runs, the Twins produced four two-out, run-scoring hits and their first crooked number of the season.—
Dan Hayes,
New York Times,
2 Apr. 2025
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However, they’re disbanded in the early moments of this third film as Eisenberg’s character tells a new generation of crooked magicians that his former comrades are dead.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
1 Apr. 2025
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Delicate, indulgent, and undeniably luxurious, caviar is a decadent addition to any dish—even dessert.—
Katie Kelly Bell,
Robb Report,
29 Mar. 2025
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The more the gorgeous Dorian Gray falls under the decadent influence of Lord Henry Wotton, the uglier the painting by Basil Hallward becomes.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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