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Examples of seductress in a Sentence
in the movie she played Cleopatra, one of history's most famous seductresses
Recent Examples on the Web
Her beauty, she is told — by a small but surprising character played by Gary Oldman — will open doors and start wars, and neither Della Porta nor Sorrentino shy away from presenting Parthenope as a carefree seductress who revels in her youth.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 21 May 2024
The The Idea of You star transformed herself into a sleek seductress with a faux pompadour pixie hairstyle and deep, dark vampy lipstick and eye shadow to match.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 25 Mar. 2024
Other than her mermaid-red hair, there’s little trace of the hokey seductress of yore; this Ivy is a nerdy, misanthropic loner with a dry monotone and a penchant for preaching about injustice—Plant Daria, complete with the green jacket.
—Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
The orange glow of a would-be seductress’s cigarette.
—Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
One result of this approach is that XVI treats the women in its cast astonishingly poorly, pulling from stock archetypes of dark fantasy scheming shrews, manipulative seductresses, and constantly available, virginal targets of romantic affections.
—WIRED, 24 June 2023
Tetris invents everything from a KGB seductress posing as an interpreter to a climactic car chase, and yet it’s got nothing on Flamin’ Hot, which is based on assertions the L.A. Times did a convincing job of disproving in 2021.
—Vulture, 12 May 2023
On this much, at least, everyone can agree: Cleopatra was a formidable queen of ancient Egypt, the last of the Macedonian Greek dynasty founded by Alexander the Great, who went on to even greater posthumous fame as a seductress, immortalized by Shakespeare and Hollywood.
—Vivian Yee, New York Times, 10 May 2023
As Carmen, Barrera isn’t given much more to play than sorrowful, occasionally determined purity of heart, a far cry from the wild seductress of the original tale.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 21 Apr. 2023
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Word History
Etymology
obsolete seductor male seducer, from Late Latin, from seducere to seduce
First Known Use
1802, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near seductress
Cite this Entry
“Seductress.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seductress. Accessed 10 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
seductress
noun
se·duc·tress
si-ˈdək-trəs
: a woman who seduces
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