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  • noun The state or condition of being charmless; absence of charm.

Etymologies

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charmless +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • He has survived near-bankruptcy, countless business blunders of staggering proportions, a kidnapping attempt, a messy personal life, and, as well, one of the most counterintuitive PR strategies in the history of modern media (brutishness and charmlessness).

    Michael Wolff: Murdoch's Hacking Scandal: It's the Story That Keeps Giving 2010

  • He has survived near-bankruptcy, countless business blunders of staggering proportions, a kidnapping attempt, a messy personal life, and, as well, one of the most counterintuitive PR strategies in the history of modern media (brutishness and charmlessness).

    Michael Wolff: Murdoch's Hacking Scandal: It's the Story That Keeps Giving 2010

  • The charm of The Maw's title character completely fails to compensate for the charmlessness of everything else in the game.

    The Maw Greg Tannahill 2009

  • The charm of The Maw's title character completely fails to compensate for the charmlessness of everything else in the game.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Greg Tannahill 2009

  • The new note's very charmlessness, in fact, reflects its purpose: to foil high-tech counterfeiters.

    What's This In My Wallet? 2008

  • Pat Buchanannowacts as head cheerleader of her chants tying Obama to terrorists, wacky preachers, elitism, charmlessness, corruption.

    Some Serious Out-of-Whackness Going On 2008

  • What first looked like a pleasant place dwindled into charmlessness and insignificance as we approached.

    The Ivory Trail Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

  • The charmlessness of existence noticeable in most of the working girls 'homes was emphasized by a saleswoman in the china department of a

    Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls Edith Wyatt 1915

  • What first looked like a pleasant place dwindled into charmlessness and insignificance as we approached.

    The Ivory Trail Talbot Mundy 1909

  • There had always been to her, in her ruthless hair-dressing, an element of severe candor, the recognition of charmlessness, a sort of homage paid to wholesome if bitter fact.

    A Fountain Sealed Anne Douglas Sedgwick 1904

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