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charmless /ˈtʃɑːmləs /adjectiveUnattractive or unpleasant: a charmless sixties structure...- Future political analysts will wonder how this cold, charmless, gormless man ever became the nominee of a major party.
- 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.
- 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.
Derivatives charmlessly adverb ...- Our small town high street is charmlessly archetypal.
- ‘I like sitting by the window,’ I said loudly and charmlessly as we sat down.
- It's the most charmlessly charming, utterly superfluous album I've heard in a while.
charmlessness noun ...- 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’.
- Worst are the three leads, seemingly handpicked for poor acting and utter charmlessness.
- His timing is sharp and precise, but his charmlessness stubs out any pleasure we might take in it.
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