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rakehell

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adjective

variants or rakehelly

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for rakehell
Noun
  • Nora Ephron for depressed perverts.
    Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 16 Feb. 2026
  • You are being spied on by a pervert.
    Jay Ruttenberg, New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • In reality, leaders on both sides are corrupt and always on the edge of disaster.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 29 June 2026
  • My career actually focuses on bonding and preventing taxpayers from being on the hook for the failures of bankrupt and corrupt companies.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026
Noun
  • But while his recent albums with Tony Seltzer and Subjxct 5 resurfaced some of the dynamism brought by Sporting Life during his younger years as the fire-breathing degenerate who tied Ratking together, that energy takes a backseat here.
    Lei Takanashi, Pitchfork, 16 June 2026
  • Now playback all the degenerate, violent entertainment Julianne has happily participated in throughout her career.
    Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 17 May 2026
Adjective
  • Even when degraded, enzymes have stable backbones that might be capable of catalyzing reactions, said Sudha Rajamani, an astrobiologist at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune who wasn’t involved in the study.
    Siddhant Pusdekar, Quanta Magazine, 1 June 2026
  • According to the company, QTT enables highly secure and resilient position, navigation, and timing (PNT) services, helping maintain accurate timing and synchronization even when traditional GPS and radio-frequency signals are unavailable, degraded, or intentionally jammed.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 30 May 2026
Noun
  • Red Cross volunteers handed out supplies such as gloves, rakes, tarps, and more to homeowners.
    Lauren Victory, CBS News, 26 June 2026
  • Just sprinkle them around the base of your plants and scratch them into the soil with a hand rake or your fingers.
    Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 24 June 2026
Adjective
  • Having a sick pet is emotionally a lot to handle.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 22 June 2026
  • Preventing infestation Just because one calf is sick doesn’t mean the entire herd will get it, Cammack said.
    Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 22 June 2026
Noun
  • The protagonist of A Love Story is a lover boy, a libertine, a gossip, a flirt.
    The Atlantic, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2025
  • The libertines will begin the film in suits.
    David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • He is lured by the sound of music down a Montmartre street to Nicholas de Lenfent (Joseph Potter), an old friend from his village who has grown up to be a talented violinist and rakish twink.
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 22 June 2026
  • With his rakish sneer and ruthlessly tight jodhpurs, Rupert has been thoroughly neutered with irony, transformed into an object for women to pick at.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026
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“Rakehell.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rakehell. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.

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