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Lothario

[ loh-thair-ee-oh ]

noun

plural Lotharios.
  1. (sometimes lowercase) a man who obsessively seduces and deceives women.

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Lothario

/ əʊˈθɑːɪˌəʊ /

noun

  1. sometimes not capital a rake, libertine, or seducer
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Lothario1

After the young seducer in Nicholas Rowe's play The Fair Penitent (1703)
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Lothario1

C18: after a seducer in Nicholas Rowe's tragedy The Fair Penitent (1703)
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It also undermines his lifelong effort to portray himself as an irresistible Lothario and sexual dynamo.

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The family man whose long list of young companions, especially at so-called Bunga Bunga bacchanals, both scandalized the country and endeared him to aspiring Lotharios.

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In large part because of his insatiable need to present as a Lothario, Trump also keeps pretending that various alleged victims aren't hot enough to earn his violent attention.

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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.

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Her maternal grandfather, a bipolar Texas Lothario who was married at least 10 times, was shot in the stomach by one of his wives, and her maternal great-grandfather killed a man with a hay hook.

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