lady-killer

Definition of lady-killernext

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Noun
  • Lindsay's sister Nicole (Christy Carlson Romano) seems to be the first to notice the enemies-to-lovers sparks flying, especially as Philip slips a sparkly shoe onto Lindsey's foot.
    Breanne L. Heldman, PEOPLE, 2 July 2026
  • The track went viral on TikTok earlier this year, with longtime lovers of the musician remembering the hit, while younger fans may have discovered it for the first time.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • Frankly, any online paramour who asks for money and yet promises a plane should be treated with extreme suspicion.
    R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • 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
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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 7 Jul. 2026.

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