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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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But her lover, the increasingly controlling and unhinged army corporal Don José, is gradually dimished to lurking in the shadows and hiding in crowds.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Mar. 2026
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Her lover, Cavaradossi, is accused of helping an enemy of the state, and is framed by a corrupt and violent police chief, Baron Scarpia.—
Courtney Lewis,
Florida Times-Union,
28 Mar. 2026
Noun
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During the course of the film, Grace deals with life, love (including a pair of paramours from the same band), professional disappointments, and the fallout of a horrible experience from her past.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
9 Mar. 2026
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Far from a stereotypical homewrecker, Archie’s paramour (Lauren Tsai) is a blunt, hyper-logical scientist.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
5 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Kudos to Gosling, though, for making the skinny-suit-wearing womanizer Jacob more than just an exceptionally sculpted torso.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
20 Mar. 2026
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The brothers, their lawyers conceded, were womanizers.—
Michael R. Sisak,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Burden’s grandmother Babe Paley, a prominent New York socialite, was married to William Paley, the founder of CBS and a serial philanderer.—
Marc Weingarten,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Mar. 2026
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There were, and are, persistent rumors that Bill Paley was a philanderer, rumors fictionalized and retold, in print and on television, like a game of telephone, the facts becoming murkier in each retelling.—
Belle Burden,
Vanity Fair,
6 Jan. 2026
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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In the movie’s fuzzy metaphysics, Shelley wills herself into the consciousness of a character named Ida (also played by Buckley), a young woman angling for survival in 1930s Chicago — a colorful, dangerous world of bawdy lotharios and lethal gangsters.—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Mar. 2026
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Or where LaKeith Stanfield, as an elusive local lothario, uses his legend-has-it oral sex skills to literally suck the souls out of women.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Lady-killer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lady-killer. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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