playboy
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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
Before that date he was “millionaire playboy Jeffrey Epstein.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
He has the tender, shining eyes of an ingenue while Del Campo, who has a striking birthmark on her cheek, is a femme fatale able to hold her own against Wolff’s selfish, useless playboy.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 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
In this world, playboys are pathetic and pitiable, which reads like a plea for modern audiences to cut maligned men more slack.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2021
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
He worships the vuvv playboys he works for.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
