lady-killer
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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
"Gossip Girl's" Ed Westwick is a real lady-killer in "Wicked City," a new crime drama set in early 1980s L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2015
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
There have been glimpses—when he takes Joan out for drinks after she’s served with divorce papers, the old lady-killer don seems to be out in force.
From Time ● May 21, 2012
"I won't go too far," said the lady-killer in the smoking-cap, reassuringly.
From A Master Of Craft by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
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
The following is a brief encounter with these two ultra stylish lady-killers.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
But he was no deceiver, no flirt, like the lady-killers who used to come to the Palazzo to bow over Lucia's hand and eye each other with that half hostile, half knowing swagger.
From The Innocent Adventuress by Mary Hastings Bradley
Bella!" replied, in coaxing accents, that most execrable of lady-killers, "can I trust you?—can you be my friend in spite of my having been such a very sad dog?
From What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
