Lothario
Americannoun
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Lotharios
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Lothario
After the young seducer in Nicholas Rowe's play The Fair Penitent (1703)
Example Sentences
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The choice of title is both a clever reference to the infamous 17th century literary Lothario and a reference to Maluma’s birth name, Juan Luis Londoño Arias.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 22, 2023
Samba, as the story’s emotional fulcrum and bookish Lothario, makes Camille both mellow and magnetic, someone whose sensitivity and openness to the many women passing through his life can be both vice and virtue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2022
Ferry had remodeled himself into a yawning, Gatsbyesque Lothario, and in Roxy Music’s final album, 1982’s “Avalon,” sophisti-pop’s aesthetic lodestar.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 20, 2020
Endlessly catchy, it’s the closest Em has come to a club banger, and his problematic Lothario dazzles rather than disgusts because he dares you to take him seriously.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 20, 2020
Iliey call him “Lo,” which is short for Lothario, which is meant to be witty, for he is a shy and silent man, a widower.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
Average Joes compete against self-styled Lotharios for the affections of three women — and a pile of cash — in this new reality series hosted by comic Nikki Glaser.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2021
Each culminates with Sam calling out these misguided Lotharios in lengthy, ruthless monologues that end with summaries as simple as, “You are a bummer. BOO on YOU,” followed by semi-orgasmic heaving breathing.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2017
She had also married Warren Beatty, one of Hollywood’s most legendary Lotharios, and had three children with him.
From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2016
A version of this review appears in print on January 31, 2014, on page C8 of the with the headline: For One-Night Lotharios, It’s Time to Face the Truth.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2014
Indeed, at times he felt gorgeously, terrifically guilty, the gayest and blackest of black Lotharios.
From Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World by Ernest Fuhr
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