Rakish vs Debauched - What's the difference?
rakish | debauched | Related terms |
dashingly, carelessly, or sportingly unconventional or stylish; jaunty; characterized by a devil-may-care unconventionality; having a somewhat disreputable quality or appearance.
(dated) like a rake; dissolute; profligate
* Macaulay
Indulging in or characterised by sensual pleasures to a degree perceived to be morally harmful; corrupted; immoral; self-indulgent.
(debauch)
Rakish is a related term of debauched.
As adjectives the difference between rakish and debauched
is that rakish is dashingly, carelessly, or sportingly unconventional or stylish; jaunty; characterized by a devil-may-care unconventionality; having a somewhat disreputable quality or appearance while debauched is indulging in or characterised by sensual pleasures to a degree perceived to be morally harmful; corrupted; immoral; self-indulgent.As a verb debauched is
(debauch).rakish
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- ... the rakish Dennis Quaid, a Houston native who is moving to Texas in a couple of years and wants it to become "the new Hollywood." (Houston Chronicle, 6/8/2007)
- The arduous task of converting a rakish lover.