How to Use lothario in a Sentence

lothario

noun
  • There was one old dark male, an aging lothario, who was always in the same place.
    Alex Shoumatoff, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • Six months ago, a Texas art museum put on a cheeky exhibit about the legendary Italian lothario.
    BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2018
  • As the titular bassist lothario, Michael Cera hippity-hops through the song like somebody’s tapping his jump button.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Jack Nicholson, the iconic Oscar winner and legendary lothario, has not retired.
    vanityfair.com, 7 Feb. 2017
  • For his sophomore album, Memories Don't Die, the hip-hop lothario places love in the backseat in order to obliterate his verses.
    Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 5 Mar. 2018
  • The story revolves around a lothario (Derbez) who is finally dumped after 25 years of marriage and must move in with his estranged sister (Salma Hayek).
    John Hecht, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2017
  • Whereas Reid gives his lothario a bored aplomb that hides a deeper cruelty, and an even deeper, desperate yearning.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Shrouded in a digital blue, nobody looks entirely comfortable, but Dylan is all-in with the lothario bit.
    Morgan Enos, Billboard, 30 Apr. 2018
  • On paper, new society entrant Edwina Sharma (Charithra Chandran) makes a perfect choice for the erstwhile lothario.
    David Oliver, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The famous quartet is vividly staged, as Maddalena romances the lothario duke in an upstairs bedroom, while downstairs at the bar the stunned Gilda listens with Rigoletto.
    New York Times, 2 Jan. 2022
  • The sentencing was the denouement of a three-act drama that featured Weiner as a savvy, ambitious politician by day and a reckless Internet lothario in private.
    Tracy Connor, NBC News, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Now Danny is frowningly married in the suburbs, while Karl is a downtown lothario dating women too young for Dennis Rodman references.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 5 June 2019
  • And there was Shane, an irresistible, monosyllabic lothario, who inspired both ire and emulation.
    Crispin Long, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2019
  • The maladjusted lothario also has many a dalliance with a particular strain of misogyny: the cutting and manipulative digs at past lovers that some of the rapper’s fans rush to freebase.
    Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 6 July 2018
  • Among the hotel's denizens is Tully (Paul Alexander Nolan), the charming lothario entertainer who specializes in bedding female hotel guests and bidding them farewell a week later with no ties or regrets.
    Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2018
  • All of the acting performances are exceptional (particularly Paula Newsome as a detective on whom Winkler's Cousineau has his lothario eyes).
    Tim Goodman, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2018
  • Beatty, now 85, has long had a reputation as a lothario whose romantic entanglements have at times overshadowed his acting career.
    CBS News, 10 Nov. 2022
  • That would include, especially, Esther’s disastrous dates with Manhattan’s would-be lotharios and the elegant Ladies’ Day banquet that fells all the magazine’s interns with food poisoning.
    Megan Abbott, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018

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