charmer
Britishnoun
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an attractive person
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a person claiming or seeming to have magical powers
Example Sentences
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Very serious games begin when Jimmy Sullivan, a slippery charmer from Honor’s past, becomes her fifth—and most ill-fated—tenant.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
Evelyn Scott was older and considerably richer than her charmer of a husband, L. Ewing Scott, and they lived in Bel-Air.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2026
At once a reminder to revisit familiar books and a prompt to read new ones, “Worlds of Wonder” is a charmer that, to paraphrase Aristotle, is more than the sum of its parts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
It helps, too, that Henry is such a charmer.
From Salon • Apr. 12, 2025
The bearded lady taught her to play the mandolin, and the snake charmer said she was a natural.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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