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Recent Examples of lady-killer
The other was Errol, a darkly handsome lady-killer.
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Graydon Carter, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025
Graydon Carter, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lady-killer
Noun
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Rick scoops Chelsea up in his arms before being shot himself and falling into the water with his lover, where the two die together.—
Audrey Gibbs,
USA Today,
8 Apr. 2025
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From Norfolk in the east on Chesapeake Bay to Charlottesville in the Appalachian Mountains to the northwest, Virginia is for art lovers this month.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Among his paramours during this period were Tina Onassis and Ava Gardner.—
Air Mail,
Air Mail,
29 Mar. 2025
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Michael Shannon, who recently performed an unusual tribute tour by playing Stipe’s role in R.E.M. with members of the band (and on some nights, Stipe himself), presented a poem Smith had written about her former paramour Sam Shepard.—
Caryn Rose,
Variety,
27 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Naming a proud state after such a philanderer is a royal embarrassment today.—
Nick Thomas,
Hartford Courant,
30 Jan. 2025
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All that, plus Liev Schreiber as a pill-popping philanderer named Tag, Dakota Fanning in pregnancy prosthetics, and Donna Lynne Champlin as the beleaguered detective trying to solve the murder.—
Tanya Melendez,
EW.com,
2 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Released on March 24, 1971, the conceptual song cycle of a poetic middle-aged lecher crashing his Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost and subsequently romancing the teenage Nelson, profoundly impacted everyone from Beck to Air, Portishead to Pulp.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
19 Mar. 2021
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The bawdy comic story lines are well-performed, most prominently by Brian Ibsen as the pompous lecher, Lucio.—
Philip Brandes,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Oct. 2019
Noun
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And now the unlikely Hollywood lothario is at again, and taking his talents to Palm Beach.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
19 Mar. 2025
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Despite being a lothario on wax, he’s kept a low-key romantic profile.—
Mankaprr Conteh,
Rolling Stone,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Lady-killer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lady-killer. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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