Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A woman who seduces. See Usage Note at -ess.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A female seducer; a woman who leads a man astray.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A woman who seduces; a female seducer.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a woman who seduces
Examples
“She put them in before fixing her hair in what she called seductress style, using a curling iron to create soft twists that framed her face.”
“Another seductress might be the flamenco-dancing main character, Ronda Cari, of my new novel, Seeing Red.”
“Another seductress might be the flamenco-dancing main character, Ronda Cari, of my new novel”
“The British system -- the NHS, National Health Service -- he called it a "seductress" that he said he was in love with; it's a global treasure, it's a model for the U.S.”
“Pfeiffer, 50, plays a "seductress" and has multiple love ...”
“seductress' video snippet previews of Beyonce on 60 Minutes, Steve Kroft calls Beyonce a "seductress," but will he call the popular singer a”
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“Like all women, she suffers from male-dominated historiography in both ancient and modern times and was often seen merely as an appendage of the men in her life or was stereotyped into typical chauvinistic female roles such as seductress or sorceress, one whose primary accomplishment was ruining the men that she was involved with.”
“To an American observer, the NHS is such a seductress.”
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“Despite Caesar and Marc Antony's rampant sexual profligacy with uncountable wives, concubines and passing assignations, it is (serially monogamous) Cleopatra who is remembered as the panting seductress.”
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“NORRIS: Beyond being a seductress, how did she use her gender?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘seductress’.
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probablyankita's list
Words are all I have to take your heart away
apartheid, techno-klutz, logorrheic, gordian knot, anodyne, odor of sanctity, finders keepers, foot-in-mouth dis..., dutch uncle, masquerade, smoke signals, furtive glance and 320 more...
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-ess
words with the suffix -ess
goddess, giantess, enchantress, doctress, archeress, auditress, avengeress, buildress, butleress, captainess, cateress, championess and 106 more...
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MYTH - spooky creatures
takes the form of a, demon, teeth of iron, unicorn, forest spirit, magical eel, savage humanoid, one-horned animal, creature, headless humanoid, disease-bringing ..., rainbow-feathered... and 607 more...
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Cherchez La Femme
seductress, feminine, fair sex, better half, intuition, beauty, mother, nag, bitch, gossip, jealousy, virginity and 4 more...
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Let's talk about sex
A collection of words about doing the nasty.
prurient, odalisque, soubrette, gravid, lochia, xenogamy, syngamy, zygote, pintle, hexaploid, seminal, hetaera and 232 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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dienekes's Words
chutzpah, lexicon, intrepid, pedagogical, schlemiel, schism, erudite, anathema, pugilist, jaunty, paradigm, automaton and 949 more...
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Evin290's Words
puerile, fastidious, blatherskite, folderol, femtosecond, redox, incarnadine, cerulean, genuflection, muslin, multitudinous, miasma and 517 more...
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thebunches92's Words
zeitgeist, schadenfreude, colloquial, sepia, realpolitik, novella, multiplicative, nee, qat, leitmotif, abhor, seductress and 77 more...
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sweet nothings.
sweet names to sicken thy lover.
precious, sweetness, lovely, darling, cupcake, buttercup, honey bun, kitten, bunny, minx, kid, wanton and 52 more...
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