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Discover LudwigThe word "playboy" is a correct and usable word in written English
It can be used to refer to a wealthy man who enjoys a lavish lifestyle, often travelling and partying in pursuit of pleasure. For example: "Rory was a typical playboy, travelling around the world and enjoying his freedom without any commitments".
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playboy
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A man who does not work, but devotes himself to a life of leisure and pleasure, often sexual, without commitments or responsibilities.
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With his camera-friendly smile, playboy reputation and party-boy image, Hamlin injects a youthful personality into the Nascar garage.
Senussi was charged – along with Gaddafi's playboy son, Saif al-Islam – with war crimes and crimes against humanity by the ICC.
Sven-Goran Eriksson became a preposterous playboy, linked with such increasingly outré schemes that it always comes as something of a start to remember he once made IFK Gothenburg one of the leading forces in Europe.
After finding a story big enough to contain a billionaire playboy inventor, a defrosted second world war super-soldier, a Norse god and a scientist with anger-management issues, what's the next challenge for the "Marvel Cinematic Universe"?
This quickly saw him graduate to international playboy.
In the same week he would get around as an austere cleric and a playboy who drank and drove fast cars.
By contrast with the dreadful hand he had to deal with in many years past, George Osborne had a decent set of cards to play – more jobs, growth up, borrowing down – and yet this political playboy of a chancellor couldn't resist overplaying it.
(Tiger Woods doesn't look like an international playboy... but I digress).
For years the foreign and especially South Korean media portrayed him as either a pampered, alcoholic playboy or, alternatively, as a twitchy, fanatical psychopath.
Mr Khan, a former playboy cricketer, contradicts his reputation abroad as a Western liberal.
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He courts publicity, and comes across as urbane, amusing and liberal-minded.Nor is Mr Lebedev a mere tycoon-playboy, cruising the streets of London or the ski-slopes of Switzerland with a musclebound entourage and highly decorative women.
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