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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being seduced, or drawn aside from the path of rectitude; corruptible.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of being seduced; corruptible.

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  • adjective able to be seduced

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Examples

  • Clients become seducible and then disposable, and fusing that mentality with family only spreads the plague.

    Janet Turley: Mad Men Season 4 Finale: Fresh Starts Janet Turley 2010

  • Clients become seducible and then disposable, and fusing that mentality with family only spreads the plague.

    Janet Turley: Mad Men Season 4 Finale: Fresh Starts Janet Turley 2010

  • It wasn't, as the media cliche would have it, the middle-aged, not beautiful, sad, easily seducible person -- no, no.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • It wasn't, as the media cliche would have it, the middle-aged, not beautiful, sad, easily seducible person -- no, no.

    [spy v spy] the faceless men 2009

  • In Moore's narrative poem, cultures are signified by female characters who are seductive, seducible, and ultimately at the mercy of the masculine forces competing for domination over them.

    Irish Odalisques and Other Seductive Figures: Thomas Moore 2000

  • In any case, such was the asceticism I imposed on myself before discovering the richness of a language I had all too sweepingly pronounced guilty: its seducible softness, its tendency to plumb the depths, its utterly supple hardness, not to mention the sheen of its dialects, its artlessness and artfulness, its eccentricities, and beauty blossoming from its subjunctives.

    Nobel Lecture - Literature 1999 1999

  • You are a general council: in you centre all this world can communicate of gravity, wisdom, and sanctity: but still you are men, and men are seducible by appearances.

    Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs John Foxe

  • But he has not, of his own motion, conceived a single woman who was not seduced or seducible, nor a single man who was not a libertine; for ` ` The Son of Porthros '' and his bride are not of Dumas 'creation.

    A Hero -- Jean Valjean 1902

  • But he has not, of his own motion, conceived a single woman who was not seduced or seducible, nor a single man who was not a libertine; for "The Son of Porthros" [Transcriber's note: Porthos?] and his bride are not of Dumas 'creation.

    A Hero and Some Other Folks 1892

  • And this is one thing that may make latter ages worse than were the former; for the vicious examples of ages past poison the curiosity of these present, affording a hint of sin unto seducible spirits, and soliciting those unto the imitation of them, whose heads were never so perversely principled as to invent them.

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

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