characterful

Example Sentences

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She helps her busy clients find historic, characterful homes in L.A. within their budget.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

The characterful, low-rise cityscape of mustard-coloured French colonial mansions was transformed into another Asian high-rise forest of glass and steel towers.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025

Rodell Aure Rosel, as the slimy marriage broker, Goro, and Wei Wu, as the angry monk Bonze, were both characterful in a silent movie kind of way.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2024

What won’t change: the hotel’s status as a characterful Los Angeles icon and official city landmark, within walking distance of the Third Street Promenade and Santa Monica pier.

From National Geographic • Apr. 18, 2023

He had on common, characterful clothes, the kind that from long wear have taken the natural outlines of the body.

From The "Genius" by Dreiser, Theodore