playboy
Americannoun
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playboys
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noun
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Origin of playboy
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Some Democrats had privately dismissed rumors of his playboy lifestyle as unsubstantiated, according to people familiar with the conversations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Before that date he was “millionaire playboy Jeffrey Epstein.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
But since he was a young man, he has been obsessed with creating a macho image, inventing the persona of a high-flying playboy and king of the New York real estate world.
From Salon ● Jun. 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
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 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
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