rakehell
/ˈreɪkhɛl
/noun archaic
A fashionable or wealthy man of immoral or promiscuous habits: her dissolute rakehell of a son, Sir Felix...
- He ingratiates himself into the life of the rich rakehell, emulating his actions, his speech, his body language.
- He was eighteen, and a rakehell, and the disparity between his character and his appearance is a familiar failure of fit that has come to give beauty a bad name.
- Finney was a young and rambunctious British actor, playing a young and exceedingly virile rakehell.
Origin
Mid 16th century: from the old expression to rake hell, meaning 'to search through hell' (to find such a bad man).