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Lothario

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Lo·thar·i·o also lo·thar·i·o  (l-thâr-)
n. pl. Lo·thar·i·os also lo·thar·i·os
A man who seduces women.
[After Lothario, a character in The Fair Penitent, a play by Nicholas Rowe.]
Lothario [loh-thah-ree-oh]
Noun
pl -os a seducer [after a character in a play]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.Lothario - a successful womanizer; a man who behaves selfishly in his sexual relationships with women
philanderer, womaniser, womanizer - a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them


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Anselmo, it is true, was somewhat more inclined to seek pleasure in love than Lothario, for whom the pleasures of the chase had more attraction; but on occasion Anselmo would forego his own tastes to yield to those of Lothario, and Lothario would surrender his to fall in with those of Anselmo, and in this way their inclinations kept pace one with the other with a concord so perfect that the best regulated clock could not surpass it.
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
High times, indeed, if unprincipled young rakes like him are to be permitted to invade the sanctity of domestic bliss; though do what the Bashaw will, he cannot keep the most notorious Lothario out of his bed; for, alas
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
If Maud had waited another twenty-four hours there would have been no need for her to have taxed her powers of invention, for on the following day there entered the shop and her life a young man who was not imaginary--a Lothario of flesh and blood.
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville View in context
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