lady-killer
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The impulse to shift Bond away from suave lady-killer mode and recast him as some kind of tortured romantic hero, while certainly interesting in theory, has not produced any particularly interesting movies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2021
Tony Soprano, the mob boss in “The Sopranos,” was many things: husband, father, animal lover, lady-killer, sociopathic capitalist, pop-culture sensation.
From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2021
And then there is Louis Patterson Trotmeier IV, a lady-killer whose downfall arrives in the form of a pop star who bears a more than passing resemblance to Madonna.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2015
Along the way, she meets a very contemporary character: Andreas Wolf, professional leaker, lady-killer and fierce rival of Julian Assange.
From Time ● Aug. 19, 2015
A lady-killer, Dunn had said; and well he could believe it from the traces of manly beauty still lingering in the suffering face.
From Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas by Kennedy, Sara Beaumont
After all, Mr. Ocean, 24, is a rising star in the hypermasculine world of urban music, where singers cultivate images as lady-killers.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2012
Harvey played handsome, heartless lady-killers in such hits as Butterfield 8 and Darling, and was the brainwashed political assassin of The Manchurian Candidate.
From Time Magazine Archive
The following is a brief encounter with these two ultra stylish lady-killers.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was an acknowledged flirt; a regular knave of Hearts; and yet totally unlike those professional lady-killers who carry their smooth chins so very high above their would-be rivals in fashionable drawing-rooms.
From The Doctor's Daughter by Vera, [pseud.]
Beaux, bucks, lady-killers, Johnnies,—all these terms have been applied at different periods to the self-proclaimed fascinator of women, and to-day we will use some one, any of them, rather than that abomination,—masher.
From Stage Confidences by Morris, Clara
