in the movie she played Cleopatra, one of history's most famous seductresses
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Once again, a defense lawyer attempted to paint the women as lying, scheming seductresses.—S. C. Cornell, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026 Kruger plays seductress Madame de Rosemonde in the French series.—Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 14 Nov. 2025 Unfortunately, Monroe’s efforts to get deep into the world of a scheming seductress with a very mean streak is one of the few things in this film that really work.—Matthew Jackson, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2025 They were confined to negative archetypes: the villain who had lost his Indian values, or the seductress whose drinking and smoking habits signaled moral corruption.—Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for seductress
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obsolete seductor male seducer, from Late Latin, from seducere to seduce