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Definition of charmless in English: charmlessadjective ˈtʃɑːmləsˈtʃɑrmləs Unattractive or unpleasant. 缺乏魅力的；令人厌恶的 a charmless sixties structure 缺乏魅力的六十年代建筑物。 Example sentencesExamples - The book ends with a moving scene between Birkin and the vicar's wife, both of them in love and both unable to confess it, he because of paralysing shyness and she out of a sense of duty to her charmless husband.
- Even as you drive past you wish you had brought your chainsaw along to clear away the charmless green fuzz that inhibits sight of the lovely bay.
- Future political analysts will wonder how this cold, charmless, gormless man ever became the nominee of a major party.
- Instead we tag along with this charmless duo from one tense standoff to another, learning too little about the characters to give gravity to the tragic ending that awaits.
- Cue consternation all round at this charmless display.
- While we are aware of the tension that keeps Jake and his crew one step ahead of both the criminals and the cops, the physical nature of the job is pretty charmless.
- Buildings were dilapidated, stained, and charmless, except for the magnificent churches which, small or large, were made warmly inviting by their many icons and lit candles.
- The majority of schools in the 1970s and 1980s still had some prefabricated buildings - cold, draughty, charmless boxes that always felt empty.
- Such perverse behaviour prompted calls for the group to be awarded the title of ‘the most charmless in rock’, so it's with a heavy heart that I trudge along London's Caledonian Road to meet them.
- He is certainly deeply charmless, but how deliberate is that?
- I'd also like to note how much I'm enjoying watching two intelligent, hardworking, and largely honourable people do charmless politics.
- Her father was a brute - let us not mince words - one of those charmless chaps who thinks the whole world is marching out of step, bar him.
- The interiors had the charmless elegance of upscale hotel suites.
- We are supposed to think that they're adorably life-affirming, unreconstructed old scamps, but I have never seen a more charmless and conceited bunch.
- Johanna, a charmless middle-aged woman is sending furniture to a man she's been corresponding with and who she believes is intending to marry her.
- Some of Richards's work smacks of the laboratory, and isn't helped by his charmless, bloodless prose style, laced as it is with briskly self-satisfied flourishes which his opponents saw as insufferable arrogance.
- This was a wise attitude, because they are, to be frank, charmless.
- You never forget that he is giving a performance and rarely overcome the fact that he plays such a selfish, charmless character.
- Paul is a stateless kind of chap, born in France but not belonging there since his mother brought him as a child to Australia with her second, charmless, Dutch husband.
- We elevate charmless, self-obsessed artists with bloated egos to the status of cultural icons just because they can carry a tune.
Derivativesadverb It's the most charmlessly charming, utterly superfluous album I've heard in a while. Example sentencesExamples - Our small town high street is charmlessly archetypal.
- ‘I like sitting by the window,’ I said loudly and charmlessly as we sat down.
noun Worst are the three leads, seemingly handpicked for poor acting and utter charmlessness. Example sentencesExamples - Even so, having looked down at the capital from the top of the chimney, I found myself thoroughly unprepared for the sight ‘of unparalleled charmlessness, an absence of grace so total that it was almost a thing of wonder’.
- His timing is sharp and precise, but his charmlessness stubs out any pleasure we might take in it.
Definition of charmless in US English: charmlessadjectiveˈtʃɑrmləsˈCHärmləs Unattractive or unpleasant. 缺乏魅力的；令人厌恶的 a charmless sixties structure 缺乏魅力的六十年代建筑物。 Example sentencesExamples - We are supposed to think that they're adorably life-affirming, unreconstructed old scamps, but I have never seen a more charmless and conceited bunch.
- Instead we tag along with this charmless duo from one tense standoff to another, learning too little about the characters to give gravity to the tragic ending that awaits.
- Her father was a brute - let us not mince words - one of those charmless chaps who thinks the whole world is marching out of step, bar him.
- Buildings were dilapidated, stained, and charmless, except for the magnificent churches which, small or large, were made warmly inviting by their many icons and lit candles.
- The majority of schools in the 1970s and 1980s still had some prefabricated buildings - cold, draughty, charmless boxes that always felt empty.
- The book ends with a moving scene between Birkin and the vicar's wife, both of them in love and both unable to confess it, he because of paralysing shyness and she out of a sense of duty to her charmless husband.
- He is certainly deeply charmless, but how deliberate is that?
- Cue consternation all round at this charmless display.
- We elevate charmless, self-obsessed artists with bloated egos to the status of cultural icons just because they can carry a tune.
- Future political analysts will wonder how this cold, charmless, gormless man ever became the nominee of a major party.
- Such perverse behaviour prompted calls for the group to be awarded the title of ‘the most charmless in rock’, so it's with a heavy heart that I trudge along London's Caledonian Road to meet them.
- Even as you drive past you wish you had brought your chainsaw along to clear away the charmless green fuzz that inhibits sight of the lovely bay.
- You never forget that he is giving a performance and rarely overcome the fact that he plays such a selfish, charmless character.
- Johanna, a charmless middle-aged woman is sending furniture to a man she's been corresponding with and who she believes is intending to marry her.
- This was a wise attitude, because they are, to be frank, charmless.
- I'd also like to note how much I'm enjoying watching two intelligent, hardworking, and largely honourable people do charmless politics.
- Paul is a stateless kind of chap, born in France but not belonging there since his mother brought him as a child to Australia with her second, charmless, Dutch husband.
- While we are aware of the tension that keeps Jake and his crew one step ahead of both the criminals and the cops, the physical nature of the job is pretty charmless.
- Some of Richards's work smacks of the laboratory, and isn't helped by his charmless, bloodless prose style, laced as it is with briskly self-satisfied flourishes which his opponents saw as insufferable arrogance.
- The interiors had the charmless elegance of upscale hotel suites.
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