Lothario

Example Sentences

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The choice of title is both a clever reference to the infamous 17th century literary Lothario and a reference to Maluma’s birth name, Juan Luis Londoño Arias.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 22, 2023

Samba, as the story’s emotional fulcrum and bookish Lothario, makes Camille both mellow and magnetic, someone whose sensitivity and openness to the many women passing through his life can be both vice and virtue.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2022

Endlessly catchy, it’s the closest Em has come to a club banger, and his problematic Lothario dazzles rather than disgusts because he dares you to take him seriously.

From The Guardian • Feb. 20, 2020

His Lothario move: signing an anonymous poem she admired.

From Washington Post • May 15, 2019

Iliey call him “Lo,” which is short for Lothario, which is meant to be witty, for he is a shy and silent man, a widower.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara