What's the difference between charmer and seduce?

Charmer


Definition:

  • (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 .

Seduce


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty in any manner; to entice to evil; to lead astray; to tempt and lead to iniquity; to corrupt.
  • (v. t.) Specifically, to induce to surrender chastity; to debauch by means of solicitation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Seduced into believing they could be a big influencer in Platini’s new Fifa, they rushed unthinkingly to back him.
  • (2) One wing of the party wants Ed Miliband to take the fight to Ukip; the other calls for a more emollient approach so as not to insult or upset former Labour supporters who have been seduced by the Faragian view of things.
  • (3) Saying that he had been “hung out to dry”, Blackburn denied in evidence that he had ever been interviewed by BBC staff about an episode dating back to 1971 when it was suggested that he had been involved in “seducing” 15-year-old Claire McAlpine after meeting her at a recording of Top of the Pops.
  • (4) It's only when they consider being seduced by the conventional rock'n'roll life that they get serious.
  • (5) And this sort of reading works, up to a point: Eusa is humanity seduced by knowledge and power, the Littl Shynin Man is the atom, and both unleash terrible chaos when split.
  • (6) Tony Hayward, chief executive of the UK's largest oil company, said that British government ministers risked being seduced by "headline-grabbing options" such as offshore wind and clean coal in a bid to bolster energy security and meet climate-change goals.
  • (7) In this, Trump’s greatest assets are a public that demands nothing too complicated from the arbiters of political discourse and a media culture that is all too eager to oblige.” Trump, the pick-up artist who seduced America Publication: The Spectator (UK) Author: Hugo Rifkind Rifkind writes for the Spectator and the Times, and while he has supported liberal social measures and even joined Labour to vote against Jeremy Corbyn, he comes from Tory stock, and is best understood as a moderate conservative.
  • (8) Also, remember that Don was also almost seduced by alternative lifestyles before, only to find that the people practising them were entirely shallow.
  • (9) However, she is the most astute image-shaper in sport bar none, seducing swathes of tame tennis writers to plug her sweets, charming hosts with just a hint of a smile, disarming critics with a pursed-lip frostiness of which Madonna would be proud.
  • (10) Even the ones who you think are American are probably Canadian.” In its profile of Whishaw, the New York Times noted how, as an actor, he rejects the idea of type and has a “slippery way of inhabiting heroes and antiheroes alike, of seducing women and men on screen and on stage with equal ease”.
  • (11) They too have also been developing homegrown talent and using a diverse scouting network to find hidden gems in the Ukrainian second division watching the Euros, and seen that Spain have a winger called Nolito , and that he doesn’t play for Barcelona, Real Madrid or Atlético Madrid, and are ready to bet that he also has the capacity to be seduced by money, initial optimism and birthday cake.
  • (12) The young did vote a bit more in 2010 than in 2005, seduced by the Lib Dem fees pledge , but no broken promise was ever better designed to disillusion first-time voters.
  • (13) He'd become lazy and complacent, seduced by alcohol and drugs.
  • (14) "We got together in LA without her, just to see what we got, like we could seduce her in the process, come up with something that would tickle her ears and she'd go: 'Oh wow, you guys are really up to something good here'.
  • (15) Public health can articulate this to a public sector which has been seduced by the over-extended promise of nudge, which has its place but is not a panacea and the counsel of despair that we can't plan long-term.
  • (16) The maid, Monika, "the prime originator" of Freud's neurosis, seduced him, chastised him, and taught him of hell.
  • (17) In ancient myth, Jupiter took the form of a swan to seduce Leda.
  • (18) To read some of our tabloid newspapers – which are not adverse to showing the odd bare breast – you might be seduced into thinking that the still-unfolding scandal of faulty breast implants made by the French firm Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) was just about vain women seeking Barbie Doll-style boob jobs.
  • (19) And I have a dream that stupid songs about seducing "good girls" will be laughed at instead of sent to No 1.
  • (20) After all, he was an accomplished viola player before the lure of the guitar seduced him.