as in pervert
a person who has sunk below the normal moral standard
a resort popular with wealthy rakehells
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or rakehelly
as in corrupt
having or showing lowered moral character or standards
a rakehell rock band that was notorious for trashing virtually every hotel suite they ever stayed in
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rakehell
Noun
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The Gooneral’s attendees didn’t care that Malone was, from all available evidence, not a gooner at all but rather an unaffiliated, lone-wolf pervert.—
Daniel Kolitz,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025 -
Boiled down to a thoughtless pervert by the public, Six became one.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
21 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Which makes Shelley Joseph today’s poster gal for the corrupt double standards in the Massachusetts legal system.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
8 Nov. 2025
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Trump is running the most brazenly corrupt administration in modern history.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Mercury News,
8 Nov. 2025
Noun
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If this group of hardened degenerates was able to enjoy the action at this level, who, exactly, are the spiritual victims of sports betting?—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
7 Nov. 2025
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Once Gacy is caught, the media runs with the details — all those bodies crammed in that crawlspace, some of them buried in trenches Gacy made his employees dig out — and paints his victims as runaways or degenerates who put themselves in danger.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Advertisement Restoring degraded land offers similar payoffs.—
Kaveh Zahedi,
Time,
3 Nov. 2025
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Previous studies relied on a process known as polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which amplifies small or degraded fragments of DNA, allowing scientists to analyze genetic material even from old or damaged organic matter.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Larger tools, like rakes and shovels, should be safely hung or otherwise stored vertically.—
Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Nov. 2025
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Each suspect was arrested on counts of possessing burglary tools — in this case, a rake — and grand theft of fruit, Pedley said.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
31 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Raimondo Orsi had already gone back to Argentina to look after his sick mother, and Luis Monti had retired.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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Air traffic controllers tasked with managing aircraft movements on runways and in the skies are working without pay during the shutdown, leading to more controllers calling in sick and triggering short staff warnings from the FAA.—
Alysa Guffey,
IndyStar,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The libertines will begin the film in suits.—
David Wingrave,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Top 5 Can’t Miss Tequila here is made for sipping—at rakish cantinas, ambitious cocktail bars, and straight from the source on a distillery tour.—
David Shortell,
Travel + Leisure,
28 Sep. 2025
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This time Todd, who has been heralded as the heir apparent to Ralph Lauren, set his sights on Havana and the rakish style of 1980’s Miami.—
Blue Carreon,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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“Rakehell.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rakehell. Accessed 17 Nov. 2025.
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