lady-killer

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Recent Examples of lady-killer The other was Errol, a darkly handsome lady-killer. Graydon Carter, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lady-killer
Noun
  • Monteverde’s cloud forest is a haven for nature lovers, with canopy walks and wildlife encounters that will delight young and old alike.
    Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Last March, Mariah The Scientist allegedly came to blows with Young Thug’s former lover, Cleopatra Dues, at an Atlanta lounge.
    DeMicia Inman, VIBE.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • John Hawkes played police officer Hank Prior and Fiona Shaw played Rose Aguineau, a former paramour of Rust Cohle’s father, Travis.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • And yet she is often boiled down to the once-paramour of a rapper whose name isn’t worth repeating.
    Nicola Dall'Asen, Allure, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Gabby dislikes Sebastian, perceiving him as an entitled womanizer.
    EW.com, EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Following her performances as southern womanizer Jamie in Drive-Away Dolls and fearless private detective Honey O’Donahue in Honey Don’t!
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The Duke, a philanderer, has far less interest in mob rule than in chasing skirts.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2025
  • Naming a proud state after such a philanderer is a royal embarrassment today.
    Nick Thomas, Hartford Courant, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Nimoy's successors in the role, Zachary Quinto and Ethan Peck, have also negotiated the two sides of Spock's human/Vulcan heritage with style — Peck has even turned him into something of an interstellar lothario.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Honestly, what could be more French than a pastry chef who is also a lothario who is also a writer who is also a spy?
    Emily Temple March 28, Literary Hub, 28 Mar. 2025

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“Lady-killer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lady-killer. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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