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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms 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
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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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