What's the difference between charmless and harmless?

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.

Harmless


Definition:

  • (a.) Free from harm; unhurt; as, to give bond to save another harmless.
  • (a.) Free from power or disposition to harm; innocent; inoffensive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For the mouthrinses containing 0.05% NaF the retention was about 0.4 mg F. This value is considered to be harmless.
  • (2) A harmless slice of Americana from the best fans in the world.
  • (3) Most hemangiomas are small, harmless birthmarks that appear soon after birth, proliferate for 8 to 18 months, and then slowly regress over the next 5 to 8 years, leaving normal or slightly blemished skin.
  • (4) Pelvic phleboliths are common and are generally considered to be harmless.
  • (5) It also intrigues me that the reaction of some women when challenged on this question so uncannily echoes the defence of sexist men in the 60s and 70s: come off it, love, it's just a bit of harmless fun.
  • (6) The high frequency of coxa magna in these patients and its possible role in the development of degenerative arthritis indicate that transient synovitis of the hip should not be considered a harmless disease until further epidemiologic studies are available.
  • (7) The activity and harmlessness of the virus was tested on sheep.
  • (8) The adults of the trematode occurring in the nasal sinuses and posterior nasal passage of the dolphins are considered as practically harmless for the host but thier eggs, aspirated deep into the bronchial tree, may initiate a foreign-body of inflammatory reaction in the lungs and continuous aspiration of such eggs may provoke a chronic pneumonia condition.
  • (9) Of all patients examined during that period for palpable breast tumors, 90 (=16.5%) were spared a breast operation thanks to fine-needle aspirations confirming the presence of harmless cysts only.
  • (10) They show once more that the treatment is harmless for the fetus.
  • (11) They are usually harmless, though they can cause an allergic reaction in a minority of people.
  • (12) Hepatic vascular exclusion (from 24 to 30mn) was harmless to the remnant liver and the kidneys.
  • (13) As regards post-therapeutic monitoring, MRI with gadolinium contrast injection is harmless and will make it possible to follow these patients regularly and to detect recurrences.
  • (14) CT, being a non-traumatic, harmless diagnostic method, improves the clinical evaluation of the patient and can facilitate the choice of the most suitable therapeutic modalities, as well as the follow-up of their results.
  • (15) Symptoms of bleeding, almost always harmless skin or mucosal bleeding, were found in 45% of patients with a history of intravenous drug abuse and in 18% of the homo- or bisexual men.
  • (16) A paradigm shift has occurred in which toxicity has been recognized at levels long held to be harmless.
  • (17) These results suggest that elevated glycine levels may be harmless in blood, but lethal in brain.
  • (18) It is superior to many other methods since it is non-invasive, harmless, and does not rely on the metabolism of a contrast agent.
  • (19) With equal reliability (96 percent), lumbar phlebography without catheterism is, by its simplicity and harmlessness and the absence of minor and major venous complications, preferable to phlebography by catheterism.
  • (20) The nature of the fistulous connection makes the release of the balloon inflated with silicone completely harmless.

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