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 took Barack Obama, another hall-of-fame charmer, to win back the White House in 2008.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
In the candid and clearsighted “Jan Morris,” Ms. Wheeler gives us the “monster and the humane, lovable companion,” the aggressive charmer who boasted of being the “only Lady Card Holder” at the Travellers Club.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 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
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
Darling: a dearly loved person, a favorite, a charmer.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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