disarming
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disarming (comparative more disarming, superlative most disarming)
- Charming; likely to put one at ease.
- a disarming smile
- 2014 January 21, Hermione Hoby, “Julia Roberts interview for August: Osage County – 'I might actually go to hell for this ...': Julia Roberts reveals why her violent, Oscar-nominated performance in August: Osage County made her feel 'like a terrible person' [print version: 'I might actually go to hell for this ...' (18 January 2014, p. R4)]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)[1]:
- Foremost in her arsenal is that smile – so enormous and so absurdly disarming that someone should have worked out a way to harness its power into international conflict resolution.
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charming; likely to put one at one's ease
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Verb[edit]
disarming
- present participle and gerund of disarm
References[edit]
- “disarming”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.