charmless

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We rented it this weekend because there was nothing else that looked good and it was awful - charmless, formulaic, and lazy.

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  1. Destitute of charms; unattractive. [Rare.] Saw my mistress, … who is grown a little charmless. Swift, To Stella, Sept. 10, 1710.

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  • I genuinely never thought I would ever hear a song so gut-wrenchingly, nausea-inducing, charmless, self righteous, egocentric and self-indulgent that it could rival the sheer git-ness of Frank Sinatra's version of —  KERRON CROSS - The Voice of The Delectable Left
  • Stephen Boxer's Petruchio is a charmless, violent bully from the moment we first see him battering his servant's face on a door,.
  • "And that's not to say Leatherheads is charmless or unenjoyable or ill-made; it just isn't quite as good as the pedigrees and passions of the people involved would have you think it will (or, frankly, should) be." —  GreenCine Daily
  • These charmless, narcissistic, whiny, terminally verbose man-children who, despite their being emotionally / psychologically regressive and generally not all that handsome, seem to bag and bed rather attractive women with effortless ease? —  PopMatters
  • That's Preston there, the snotty, charmless, failed-career popstar talking about Simon Amstell, who hosts his own prime-time TV show. —  Hecklerspray
 

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