What's the difference between lothario and seducing?

Lothario


Definition:

  • (n.) A gay seducer of women; a libertine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It may be just as well that Hugh Grant fervently believes a film succeeds on its qualities, not on publicity about its stars, because he did his tabloid reputation as a heartless, feather-brained Lothario immense harm in the process of delivering damning testimony on phone-hacking to the Leveson inquiry on Monday.
  • (2) Clark, a famous lothario, was more interested in becoming better acquainted with his new secretary, Jenny, but she had other ideas.
  • (3) Joseph Gordon-Levitt has cast Scarlett Johannson in his directorial debut, reportedly the tale of a lothario and "his journey to become less of a selfish dick".
  • (4) But the fact that half of the country were trying to match-make a 21-year-old stretched cherub and that middle-aged lothario in the first place is pretty upsetting.
  • (5) The multimillionaire lothario has kept paternal about Playboy, and last month announced his third marriage, to 24-year-old Playmate Crystal Harris.
  • (6) There’s been much more of a narrative line through all of Craig’s four Bond films and there’s been much more of an overall attempt to connect the films and give more depth to the character.” But while Craig’s always embraced a much darker side of the lothario spy than his predecessors, Gant said that in order to ensure Spectre could break box office records as Skyfall did before it, the film still needed to cater to younger, action-hungry audiences.
  • (7) After all, without witnessing God's carcinogenic judgment rain down upon the lotharios of this world once in a while, how could we possibly stop our children from descending into chaotic, amoral rabbles of orgiastic anarchy?
  • (8) Even his latest incarnation, a scheming lothario in the film Untold Scandal - a Korean remake of Les Liaisons Dangereuses - has failed to dent his image.
  • (9) If you missed the first series, Matt Berry is retro lothario and thesp Steven Toast.
  • (10) The online vigilante group Anonymous circulated Roosh’s address and phone number, and the Daily Mail published photos of him in the doorway of a house in the Washington DC area , where the supposed globetrotting lothario apparently lives with his mother.
  • (11) People are ready to see Adam play a million different guys in one year – from lotharios to villains to nerds.
  • (12) But the ageing lothario was plunged into a Wall Street takeover battle today as rival publisher Penthouse sought to seize control of his soft porn empire.
  • (13) On the surface, 26-year-old Californian Miguel Pimentel is a showman, a pop star, and an R&B lothario of the kind who can effortlessly leap across a stage flashing his pecs at screaming females (as he did at the Forum, extensively).
  • (14) Hugh Grant, due to reprise his role as lothario Daniel Cleaver, has apparently criticised Helen Fielding and David Nicholls' script, resulting in producers placing the project on hiatus.
  • (15) A lothario kitty who has plenty of luck with the boys, Lil Bub could be a new leading lady – especially with those big green eyes.
  • (16) David Tennant is to return to the West End stage, playing a lothario in Patrick Marber’s play Don Juan in Soho.

Seducing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Seduce
  • (a.) Seductive.

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.

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