(n.) A word or combination of words sung or spoken in the practice of magic; a magical combination of words, characters, etc.; an incantation.
(n.) That which exerts an irresistible power to please and attract; that which fascinates; any alluring quality.
(n.) Anything worn for its supposed efficacy to the wearer in averting ill or securing good fortune.
(n.) Any small decorative object worn on the person, as a seal, a key, a silver whistle, or the like. Bunches of charms are often worn at the watch chain.
(n.) To make music upon; to tune.
(n.) To subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence; to affect by magic.
(n.) To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.
(n.) To attract irresistibly; to delight exceedingly; to enchant; to fascinate.
(n.) To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences; as, a charmed life.
(v. i.) To use magic arts or occult power; to make use of charms.
(v. i.) To act as, or produce the effect of, a charm; to please greatly; to be fascinating.
(v. i.) To make a musical sound.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, growing accustomed to “this strange atmosphere”, the Observer man became dazzled by Burgess’s “brilliance and charm”.
(2) 133 Hatfield Street, +27 21 462 1430, nineflowers.com The Fritz Hotel Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Fritz is a charming, slightly-faded retreat in a quiet residential street – an oasis of calm yet still in the heart of the city, with the bars and restaurants of Kloof Street five minutes’ walk away.
(3) Song appeared to give Bolt a good luck charm to wear around his wrist.
(4) We all do different things.” She was front and centre at Ashley’s side in footage shot last week by Sky News cameramen, who were also part of the “selected media” entourage invited to Shirebrook to launch the group’s charm offensive.
(5) Bargain of the week Charming but teeny-tiny one-bedroom period cottage, £55,000, with williamsonandhenry.com .
(6) The impressive choice of drinks ranges from local cider to unusual rosés from Navarra and punchy Toro and Bierzo reds, all selected by charming Nubia, wife of Juan Mari.
(7) The crucial additional feature of his nature, however, was that the apparently guileless charm was accompanied by a razor-sharp shrewdness.
(8) I think we are still the underdogs because they have high quality but we will try to do our best – if we lose it’s because Sevilla made a fantastic performance.” As well as missing a penalty Sevilla also hit the woodwork on two occasions, with the Leicester goal living a charmed life at times.
(9) In it he translated Trump’s coarse ramblings into charming straight talk and came up with the phrase “truthful hyperbole”, which captures brilliantly an approach to business and politics in which everything is the greatest, the most beautiful.
(10) For all Lagarde's charm, it's hard not to feel a sense of Alice In Wonderland bewilderment about the IMF's work.
(11) The best charm shows water next to Heaven and then items representing qualities of Air, Earth and Water.
(12) For real will-this-do illustrating, look no further than conjoined twins Tip and Tap , although they admittedly boast a certain erstaz charm not seen post- Pique (the much-maligned Goleo VI and Pille the Erudite Ball apart).
(13) Seth Smith makes the final out of the A's season, which is a good luck charm for the Boston Red Sox, as Smith made the final out for the Colorado Rockies in the 2007 World Series that Boston won.
(14) In the tradition of the American author Patricia Highsmith, creator of the charming psychopath Tom Ripley, Rendell used twisting plots to expose twisted minds.
(15) As to Beyoncé herself, Hamilton had nothing but praise: "She is a very smart, serene lady … utterly charming and focused."
(16) He strikes me more as a clever man - oh, very clever - than a necessarily charming man; for there's a distance, an aloofness.
(17) Lord of the Rings made him the doomed anti-hero , he was easily the best thing in the disastrous Troy, giving Odysseus guile, wit and that familiar, rough-edged charm, and he terrified TV viewers as property developer John Dawson in the dark and brilliant Red Riding .
(18) Pauline Kael, when reviewing the film, said, "Jane Fonda has been a charming, witty, nudie cutie in recent years, and now gets a chance at an archetypal character.
(19) The former Conservative chief whip Andrew Mitchell was a Jekyll and Hyde character who employed a mixture of charm and menace, his libel trial against the Sun newspaper over the Plebgate affair heard.
(20) 5.14pm GMT Alan Pardew speaks ... With a smirk playing around his chops in a charm offensive on Sky Sports, he says he ‘massively regrets” sticking the hid on Hull City midfielder David Meyler and says he’ll be sitting down for matches in the future.
Charmless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of charms.
Example Sentences:
(1) The majority, however, are soulless, charmless glass boxes with no personality and, if not actively ugly, are not exactly beautiful either.
(2) "That said it is fairly clear that the council raised the price of parking permits, after five years of a price freeze, too abruptly and rather charmlessly.
(3) They made it clear that these “motherfucker refugees” were not welcome on the charmless rocky outcrop.
(4) Maybe it was only inexperience that made her seem so unsympathetic – chippy, charmless, alienating.
(5) He asks his driver to cruise down Kirkcaldy's charmless promenade so he can point out where Adam Smith developed his theory of free trade by watching the sailing ships slipping in and out of the Forth.
(6) The video at least provides some evidence to back up that claim – for it is really Corbyn speaking in it, however unjustly edited – but it feels rattled, bullying, charmless, ugly, and paranoid: the kind of Conservative attack that Corbyn supporters will relish, and that in the short term can only enhance his standing as a likable maverick.
(7) Dick Advocaat, in his final game as Russia coach, was his usual charmless self in arguing that all the Greeks ever do is defend but his admission that his players were not sharp enough in front of goal was much nearer the mark.
(8) Hawke is a charmless narcissist and I don't care for his character Jesse either.
(9) It's not that the place is exactly charmless, it is just a bit peculiar.
(10) Without a willingness to forgo higher incomes right here and right now, and join the charmless and unrefined poor in their struggle for economic justice, the middle-class socialist’s solidarity doesn’t really amount to a hill of beans – let alone a hill of beans with a city on it.
(11) I'm fed up with charmless slackers like Seth Rogen getting off with hotties, so how about a rom-com about a girl geek who gets knocked up by an overachieving Mr McDreamy?
(12) So with Fifa's charmless world view, there is every chance wearing a knock-off Bafana Bafana shirt counts as receiving stolen goods, and the Dutch ladies are advised to engage a top-flight lawyer as a matter of urgency.
(13) Corden may have been feted as a performer, but he remains far from universally loved, and the social media reaction to his OBE award demonstrated that there are many who have never forgiven him for the charmless years of tabloid ubiquity.
(14) Meanwhile, four Guardian US columnists offer their take: “Teleprompter Trump was charmless, deprived of the spontaneity and humour that made him a compelling candidate,” says Jonathan Freedland.
(15) Tucked away behind the vast, charmless apartment blocks and broad thoroughfares so beloved of Soviet town planners, the Minsk History Museum boasts Belarus’s best exhibition of the summer.
(16) Many are clearly off their rockers; nothing else can explain the appearance in the Guardian list, as the second greatest foreign film of all time, of the embarrassing, charmless, cutesy confection of puny French nothingness titled Amélie, nor the non-appearance of Visconti's The Leopard.
(17) "I remember for a long time feeling totally charmless and unhandsome and I know there are so many others who still feel the same way.