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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The power of personality is important in politics and in Scottish Labour there is a sense that Andy Burnham is much more of a charmer than Sir Keir Starmer.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
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
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
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 ● Jul. 29, 2025
Among her brood of six, Reggie was the quiet charmer, a peacemaker, sensitive with a dry wit, both athletic and awkward, honest.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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