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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
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The Granville Suite, once military reception rooms, is named after Christine Granville, rumored lover of Ian Fleming and apparently Churchill’s favorite spy.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 Apr. 2026
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While the storm is looming, there are new glimmers of possibility—friends can become lovers, strangers can become friends on the subway, the supermarket aisles are charged with meaning.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 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
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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
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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
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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
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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 6 Apr. 2026.
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