adventuress
noun
ad·ven·tur·ess
əd-ˈven-ch(ə-)rəs 
: a female adventurer: such as
a
: a woman who seeks dangerous or exciting experiences
b
somewhat old-fashioned
: a woman who seeks position or livelihood by questionable means
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Babitz’s gleefully debaucherous memoir captures her teen years as a glamour-mad adventuress pinballing around a town full of kooks.
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Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
Dempsey was a creative type, the sort of searcher who, in the Gilded Age, was known as an adventuress.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
Eliza’s urge to find the truth behind the disappearances begins with a literary argument with her friend Jean, a cross-dressing prostitute and adventuress who services women.
—Mary Ann Gwinn, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2022
Her heroine, Angela Lovemore—that’s Dr. Lovemore to you—is an adventuress with beauty and brains.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 24 Mar. 2022
Jenna Coleman, already a veteran of storied nerd franchise Doctor Who, will play Lady Johanna Constantine, an 18th-century occult adventuress and ancestor of John Constantine.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 26 May 2021
Noelline is judged a successful adventuress, but Pianon is thought a double fool for having taken her back.
—Andrea Lee, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
Lewd women, bawds and adventuresses were not welcome in courts, nor were prostitutes or immoral characters.
—Clement Knox, Time, 4 Feb. 2020
In 1871 an English adventuress named Lucy Walker became the first woman to summit the mountain.
—Mark Jenkins, National Geographic, 1 Aug. 2019
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Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
Dempsey was a creative type, the sort of searcher who, in the Gilded Age, was known as an adventuress.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
Eliza’s urge to find the truth behind the disappearances begins with a literary argument with her friend Jean, a cross-dressing prostitute and adventuress who services women.
—Mary Ann Gwinn, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2022
Her heroine, Angela Lovemore—that’s Dr. Lovemore to you—is an adventuress with beauty and brains.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 24 Mar. 2022
Jenna Coleman, already a veteran of storied nerd franchise Doctor Who, will play Lady Johanna Constantine, an 18th-century occult adventuress and ancestor of John Constantine.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 26 May 2021
Noelline is judged a successful adventuress, but Pianon is thought a double fool for having taken her back.
—Andrea Lee, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
Lewd women, bawds and adventuresses were not welcome in courts, nor were prostitutes or immoral characters.
—Clement Knox, Time, 4 Feb. 2020
In 1871 an English adventuress named Lucy Walker became the first woman to summit the mountain.
—Mark Jenkins, National Geographic, 1 Aug. 2019
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“Adventuress.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adventuress. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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