playboy
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The 41-year-old royal misfit has long struggled with the monarchy's strictures, shaking off the angry young man and "playboy prince" tags only to find himself at loggerheads with his closest relatives.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
Mr. Hamm, who finally shows up late in the movie, has an equally good time in the opposite direction, recreating himself as a supercilious playboy lounging around in a bathrobe all day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Or maybe he was a playboy, and she was a self-respecting career girl.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
It is about a con-man taking on the identity of a wealthy playboy.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2025
Todd had always been, to Zeitoun’s mind, a bit of a wanderer, something of a playboy.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
It’s a release created in SEO heaven: three of the buzziest playboys in music record a song and name it after one of the hottest genres in the world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2023
Until his social media ban, Tate was operating something called Hustler University, which promised, for $49 a month, to turn his audience into rich playboys, as he presents himself to be.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2022
He reserves some of his greatest ire for FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who criticized the early CIA as a refuge of irresponsible adventurers, Ivy League playboys and communist sympathizers.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 8, 2020
They also need to shed any perceptions of the shoe as being for pretentious preppies, rakish playboys, or stuffy old men.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2016
He worships the vuvv playboys he works for.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
