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  • adverb In a charmless way; without charm.

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Examples

  • I am informed by reliable sources that Spurs have a new breed of supporter, and that the loudest, brashest and most charmlessly geezerish football followers in London are no longer to be found at the Bridge but the Lane.

    If Blackpool are spared then the league owes Wolves an apology Paul Wilson 2010

  • One is a charmlessly aggressive factory worker, the second is bent on social advancement by way of a steady job in insurance, the third is a dim-witted, maladroit railway porter.

    Cemetery Junction 2010

  • Certainly, expatriates and exiles have the luxury to lament their quaint visions of a lost Ireland without having to suffer the unemployment and poverty that travel so charmlessly with tradition.

    In Search of the Classic Irish Pub 2009

  • Stupid acronyms contribute to stupid governance, and this particular example is flagrantly ugly, charmlessly kludgy, insipidly, nonsensically, grotesquely stupid.

    dustbury.com » Initial reaction 2007

  • The difference is that Sontag uses it charmlessly — but then she doesn't intend to be charming.

    Odd Couple 2004

  • The difference is that Sontag uses it charmlessly — but then she doesn't intend to be charming.

    Odd Couple 2004

  • I connect partly with the Burton scene and partly with that, of slightly subsequent creation, which, after flourishing awhile slightly further up Broadway under the charmlessly commercial name of

    A Small Boy and Others Henry James 1879

  • From time to time, these charmlessly hypocritical aspects of Saudi society have been revealed whenever people who imagine they are above the law find themselves in British courts: domestic servants being assaulted with irons and locked in cupboards, for example.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • In the absence of an usherette I found myself a charmlessly utilitarian metal seat.

    Indymedia Ireland Liz Windsor 2010

  • One is a charmlessly aggressive factory worker, the second is bent on social advancement by way of a steady job in insurance, the third is a dim-witted, maladroit railway porter.

    Film | guardian.co.uk Philip French 2010

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