(n.) One who charms, or has power to charm; one who uses the power of enchantment; a magician.
(n.) One who delights and attracts the affections.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a recovering graduate of an institution that played host to a similar bunch of charmers, all I can say is, so far, so humdrum.
(2) In fact charm and magic refer to the same phenomenon, the promise of blissful sleep at the breast of Mother, the omnipotent charmer.
(3) On it Jacobs showed that he was more than just a practised charmer until he was succeeded by the more down-to-earth John Timpson .
(4) Politicians may be professional charmers, but you will rarely see a more effective lesson in how to win round a difficult crowd.
(5) I have seen two particularly horrible examples lately: Mothercare's "When I grow up I want to marry a prince" and a real charmer on a dad in a kids' playground – "I swear officer, she was awake."
(6) "Here's this girl, who has it all – about to make a good marriage, has a great job, then meets this charmer.
(7) Gone are the days of associating India with snake charmers and elephants.
(8) In fact, she's something of a charmer, although this is possibly helped by the fact that I genuinely don't really want to ask too many things about how she gets her children to school, or who made the first move when she and Johnny Depp , father to Lily-Rose (11) and Jack (8), got together all those years ago.
(9) The short answer is that the friends of George Galloway and Ken Livingstone have taken it over and when those charmers move in, basic principles fly out of the window.
(10) Havers, who made his name as the hurdler Lord Lindsay in the film Chariots of Fire and was a staple of British television in the 1980s with programmes such as The Charmer and Don't Wait Up, defended his aunt after a lawyer representing victims of child abuse, Alison Millar, told The World at One that Butler-Sloss should stand aside.
(11) I often exchanged grubby dollars or packets of Marlboro for tins of caviar from slightly sinister gold-toothed charmers.
(12) Taking all I knew about the snake-charmer in Derry and, more especially, about Chris the mod in London, I translated them as best I could to Brooklyn.
(13) Some recent Standard headlines include: "'Drunk on power' - Ken admits he has a private fiefdom"; "SUICIDE BOMB BACKER RUNS KEN CAMPAIGN", and "Charmer Boris, a one-man messiah".
(14) In his youth, when he was a Boston-based calypso singer, they used to call him The Charmer.
(15) What a charmer, Karl Lagerfeld "This seat's taken."
(16) I wish Greene's bruising charmer of a Helen showed just a touch more longing for remove, but these performances are otherwise fulsome emotional creations indeed.
(17) He can be infuriating at times, but what you see is what you get.” He’s not a charmer?
(18) The Press Trust of India criticised the film for its "exotic India package – snake charmers in red turbans, magicians who say abracadabra and slum dwellers who speak pukka English".
(19) A charmer with a ruthless steak, a PR once said of him : "Andy's very clever.
(20) Langella, who's been doing the publicity rounds with him, is such a charmer it is hard to quite credit him as a curmudgeon .
Charming
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Charm
(a.) Pleasing the mind or senses in a high degree; delighting; fascinating; attractive.
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.