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- noun The state or condition of being
charmless ; absence ofcharm .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The new note's very charmlessness, in fact, reflects its purpose: to foil high-tech counterfeiters.
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Pat Buchanannowacts as head cheerleader of her chants tying Obama to terrorists, wacky preachers, elitism, charmlessness, corruption.
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What first looked like a pleasant place dwindled into charmlessness and insignificance as we approached.
The Ivory Trail Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920
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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
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What first looked like a pleasant place dwindled into charmlessness and insignificance as we approached.
The Ivory Trail Talbot Mundy 1909
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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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