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rakehell

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈɹeɪkhɛl/Part of speech nounSorted aeehkllrStarts with REnds with L0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a dissolute man in fashionable society

Word origin

From to rake (out) hell (“to search through hell thoroughly”), in the sense of a person so evil or immoral that they cannot be found in hell even after an extensive search: see rake (“to search through (thoroughly)”). Compare rakeshame.

Used in a sentence

  • And farre away, amid their rakehell bands, / They spide a Lady left all succourlesse […].
  • I knew from the beginning that I would have to move fast to keep Minnie to myself. Kansas City was full of rakehell bachelors, all of whom I had to outcourt.
  • It seldom doth happen, in any way of life, that a sluggard and a rakehell do not go together.

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