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
Wes is described as charming and rakish, an agent whose impeccable instincts and unconventional tactics fuel his drive to stop at nothing to achieve justice.
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Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 4 Sep. 2024
Remember that when recounting in graphic detail, every side-effect of your recent colonoscopy prep, dropping the F-bomb, arguing heatedly with your spouse or partner, boasting of your rakish conquests at the local bar and grill or openly discussing your private financial affairs.
—Steve Cambria, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2024
Tubbs though was written to be precise in his rakish style.
—Fawnia Soo Hoo, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Aug. 2024
Strangers to the genre dismiss romance with the speed and frequency of a rakish duke inciting a scandal.
—Casey McQuiston, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
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Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 4 Sep. 2024
Remember that when recounting in graphic detail, every side-effect of your recent colonoscopy prep, dropping the F-bomb, arguing heatedly with your spouse or partner, boasting of your rakish conquests at the local bar and grill or openly discussing your private financial affairs.
—Steve Cambria, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2024
Tubbs though was written to be precise in his rakish style.
—Fawnia Soo Hoo, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Aug. 2024
Strangers to the genre dismiss romance with the speed and frequency of a rakish duke inciting a scandal.
—Casey McQuiston, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rakish
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Not Arresting Trump | Opinion Instead of fostering violence or corrupt attempts at compromising the certification of election results, the post-election antics of the Republican party in North Carolina were quite peaceful.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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The Emmy winner and Oscar nominee was among three dozen wealthy parents across the country who paid a corrupt college consultant tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to get their children fraudulently admitted to top schools by inflating test scores or fabricating athletic accomplishments.Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 5 Dec. 2024
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The novel stirred public outrage over the degraded state of the cathedral.Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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Bon first garnered attention with Not a Cornfield, a 2005-2006 work that took a 32-acre plot of land in downtown LA, and grew a full seasonal crop of corn, as a way to take a degraded unproductive piece of land and demonstrate its fecundity and potential for transformation.Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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Jodi Blodgett is so sick of all the extras that she's stopped flying.Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024
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Salmonella is bacteria that can make people sick with an illness called salmonellosis.Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
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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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But as evidence of the miscarriage of justice gradually came to light — including the identity of the actual traitor, a dissolute nobleman named Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy — more people joined Dreyfus’ cause.Maurice Samuels / Made by History, TIME, 21 May 2024
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The pardon was a political bombshell that Republicans have used to further President-elect Donald Trump's claims that the Justice Department has been weaponized against him and that the Biden family has been crooked for years.Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
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Caravans of cars traveled from Kentucky, Tennessee, the Carolinas, Virginia and Ohio to clinics here, loading up on pills and prescriptions from crooked doctors selling their prescription pads to anyone with so much as a hangnail.Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 29 Nov. 2024
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Corruption flourishes under the rule of decadent Roman emperors Geta (Joseph Quinn) and Caracalla (Fred Hechinger).Armond White, National Review, 6 Dec. 2024
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The Cambon tote was one of the It bags of the decadent and label-obsessed 2000s.Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 2 Dec. 2024
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“Rakish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rakish. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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