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playboy

[pley-boi] / ˈpleɪˌbɔɪ /


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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

Or maybe he was a playboy, and she was a self-respecting career girl.

From Salon Jul. 5, 2026

"As far as everybody's concerned, you're a playboy," she told him, accusing him of "parading" his relationships with people including British supermodel Naomi Campbell.

From BBC Feb. 24, 2026

Before that date he was “millionaire playboy Jeffrey Epstein.”

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 20, 2025

He had a bevy of female admirers — but also a coterie of critics, who considered him a dandy and a playboy.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

In a different sequence, our ensemble characters take turns reading an online screed caricaturing billionaires as yacht-bound playboys.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 13, 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 spent the postwar years in Paris, befriending Prince Aly Khan and other jet-setting playboys who frequented casinos.

From Washington Post Jan. 11, 2022

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




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