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- adjective informal
overwhelmingly sexually attractive
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Examples
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From the forthcoming album, The Coldest Winter for a Hundred Years, this is stunning, swoonsome guitar pop like they never went away.
The F&M playlist 2011
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This swoonsome, snowy setting for videogame Skyrim's current ad campaign might have been lifted straight from the work of German Romantic Caspar David Friedrich.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall show for incurable romantics featuring such swoonsome love songs as Spotty Dick, Blinded by Shit and Enchanted Pisspot.
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This section includes random questions on the swoonsome romantic comedy,
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Like their debut UK single Found Love in a Graveyard, which spoke, beautifully, of unrequited love from beyond the grave, Beachy Head is yet another nugget of haunted pop classicism, complete with careening choruses, swoonsome harmonies and a deliciously nasty sting in its tail.
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Never shy to speak his mind, he's spent his life forging a single-minded path - be it on his last visit to the UK in 2007 as an outspoken contestant in Celebrity Big Brother, or in Hollywood after hitting superstardom as Lieut Starbuck in Battlestar Galactica and most memorably as swoonsome con-man Faceman in The A-Team during his '80s television peak.
WalesOnline - Home 2010
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Never shy to speak his mind, he's spent his life forging a single-minded path - be it on his last visit to the UK in 2007 as an outspoken contestant in Celebrity Big Brother, or in Hollywood after hitting superstardom as Lieut Starbuck in Battlestar Galactica and most memorably as swoonsome con-man Faceman in The A-Team during his '80s television peak.
WalesOnline - Home 2010
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Next I had to catch a train into central London, where the combination of my light-headedness, a sunset in the south west shedding light on dark rainclouds overhead, and the swoonsome first album by The Clientele on my headphones, swept me away.
DJ Alchemi 2010
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Like their debut UK single Found Love in a Graveyard, which spoke, beautifully, of unrequited love from beyond the grave, Beachy Head is yet another nugget of haunted pop classicism, complete with careening choruses, swoonsome harmonies and a deliciously nasty sting in its tail.
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The Victorian artist Frederic Lord Leighton made his name mixing classicism with a swoonsome, pre-Raphaelite sensuality; an aesthetic that reached luscious perfection in his painting Flaming June.
The Guardian World News Skye Sherwin 2010
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