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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It also turns its gaze to those assigned to the lower rungs of the colonial social order - dancing girls, agricultural labourers, barbers and snake charmers.
From BBC
Mr. Hersh, age 88, is a gruff charmer; a viewer will understand why people open up to him.
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.
Shanks expects us to clock the unacknowledged wedding ring on Herriman’s Jamie, a Hallmark rom-com charmer, and so his script takes our suspicions and twists them once, twice and a third time for good measure.
From Los Angeles Times
You sense that she’s made the kind of character-driven charmer she wouldn’t mind acting in herself in five decades.
From Los Angeles Times
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