Thesaurus results for LADY-KILLER

lady-killer

noun

Definition of lady-killer

as in lover

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Noun

While this verdant island makes a lovely spot for a hike and a picnic on a sunny day, art lovers have two additional reasons to make the trip.

— Carolyn Heller, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
And the long-term effects have paid dividends, helping foster new Ghibli lovers.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026

Definition of lover

Noun

Tracy Letts plays her perverted husband, while Callum Turner, Jamie Bell, Lukas Gage and Riley Keough star as her very messed up children, and Elle Fanning is Bell’s paramour.

— Marlow Stern, Variety, 25 July 2026
Swift has been seen about town with famous friends, paramours and even one of her cats from time to time.

— Lily Boyce, New York Times, 2 July 2026

Definition of paramour

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The chart-topper sparked many rumors about the identity of the apricot-scarf-wearing womanizer.

— René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 July 2026
Now, Cady is a former restaurateur and womanizer who became a tabloid sensation after his pregnant wife disappeared; his defense attorney, the young, pregnant, alcoholic Anna, seemingly guided him toward a plea deal engineered by Tom.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 26 June 2026

Definition of womanizer

Noun

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.

— Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 22 May 2026
Is Jack a do-nothing philanderer while Shyanne desperately tries to preserve their five-year romance, or is the truth more complicated than that?

— Todd Gilchrist, IndieWire, 7 May 2026

Definition of philanderer

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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
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

Definition of lecher

Noun

Interview introduced viewers to Lestat through Louis’s eyes, casting him first as a suave, impenetrable lothario.

— Hannah Giorgis Yohannes, Vanity Fair, 13 July 2026
David Cassidy and Olivia d‘Abo star as among the visitors from the future; Leif Garrett (like Cassidy, a 1970s TV and pop idol) is a disco-mad lothario.

— Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026

Definition of lothario

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