What is "charmless"

Usage examples of "charmless".

He could hear voices now, singing some charmless accompaniment in a language he didn't comprehend.

That they should be so startled by its entrance into their charmless circle struck her as almost comical.

It was just flat and brown and full of remote little towns with charmless names: Swink, Ordway, Manzanola.

It was a small, charmless place, with just one road in and one road out.

And on certain days it is possible to sit on the crumbling harbor wall and-viewing a sky unmarked by the trails of aircraft-think that even this charmless spot is proof of God's charity.

Perhaps she should cultivate Dowd's friendship, however charmless he was.

Not a single word was forthcoming—not even another charmless comment regarding his tireless appreciation of the famous novelist’s “hooters.

His terrible book was calledNot in My Net,and his humor was principally demonstrated by his charmless habit of referring to the women he’d slept with aspucks,thus enabling him to crack the joke “She was a great puck.

But with certain predictable exceptions, the press supported Clay because he was an attractive figure in a profession not noted currently for the charm of its practitioners, witness the First Magistrate, whose folksiness did not appeal even to the mythical folk who had elected him largely because they liked the charmless man with the moustache even less than they liked him.

The Wye Valley was as beautiful as I remembered it from years before - dark woods, winding river, lonely white farmhouses high up on steep slopes - but the villages between were rather astonishingly charmless and seemed to consist mostly of petrol stations, pubs with big car parks and gift shops.

It was a charmless building of red brick and stone dressing, hedged in on every side by new office developments, the small accompanying graveyard littered and forsaken.