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lady-killer

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Definition of lady-killer

as in lover

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This year, there’s something for nearly every interest, from cheese lovers and bookworms to crafty adults and puzzle enthusiasts.

— Casey DelBasso, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026
This is our introduction to He and She, two clownish, pugilistic lovers who are locked in a war of words, even as a literal war rages outside.

— Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of lover

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Posing as a journalist, Tucker goes to interview the older man’s former paramour in Paris.

— Dennis Harvey, Variety, 10 Sep. 2026
Stephen Cloobeck — a one-time California gubernatorial candidate ensconced in Democratic political circles — pleaded not guilty to witness tampering charges Friday related to a burglary case against his former paramour, OnlyFans model Adva Lavie.

— James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of paramour

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The piece follows the fall of the notorious libertine, a reckless womanizer, ignoring many supernatural warnings until a ghostly stone attempts to have its way with his soul.

— David John Chávez, Mercury News, 2 Sep. 2026
The serial womanizer, 29, who’s appeared on Too Hot to Handle and Perfect Match, found his forever love in Amber Mozo on Wednesday’s finale of Netflix’s Let’s Marry Harry.

— Leigh Blickley, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Aug. 2026

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Many on social media have taken to calling the new female Jolene after the famed philanderer from the Dolly Parton song of the same name.

— Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 31 July 2026
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

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

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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

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