lover-boy
Example Sentences
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The lover boy persona that he has duped people into believing?
From Salon • Oct. 11, 2023
A lover boy he never met a person he didn’t like or a food he didn’t taste.
From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2023
The line is vivid, funny, oddly respectful — an object lesson, in other words, for a still-maturing lover boy who knows he has nowhere to go but down.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2021
To his credit, he also really came through with the lover boy advice and killer hair product recommendations for Dustin.
From Time • Oct. 27, 2017
Remy's best friend Candace was Bryson's cousin, and she was always going on and on about how Remy was forever acting like some kind of lover boy that no one's ever loved.
From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.