femme fatale

as in siren
a woman whom men find irresistibly attractive an actress who was often cast as cynical, sexy femmes fatales

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Recent Examples of femme fatale Alice, Lost Highway Playing double duty as both Renee Madison and Alice Wakefield in 1997’s head-spinning Lost Highway, Patricia Arquette delivers a killer performance of another Lynch femme fatale with a twist. Liam Hess, Vogue, 17 Jan. 2025 Isabella Rossellini plays a lounge-singing femme fatale while Dennis Hopper had a career resurgence with one of his most memorable roles as a sadistic, gas-huffing gangster. Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025 The footage captured by the NatGeo crew includes a hair-raising segment where this femme fatale opts not to wait for her prey to come to her. Ars Technica, 14 Jan. 2025 She was painted as a villainous femme fatale, despite plenty of evidence to the contrary. Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 15 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for femme fatale
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  • Staying put In Kyiv, residents have adjusted to the regular wail of sirens and periodic explosions.
    Dominique Soguel, Christian Science Monitor, 28 Apr. 2025
  • The fact that the doomed king and his armed guards need to escape through a secret passage that just so happens to cut through my jail cell seems a little too convenient for my brain to accept without warning sirens going off.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 26 Apr. 2025

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“Femme fatale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/femme%20fatale. Accessed 6 May. 2025.

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