SEDUCING Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

seducing

verb

present participle of seduce

as in luring

to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage I wasn't going to buy the car, but was seduced by the low-interest payment plan

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Recent Examples of seducing Nate plays his older neighbors like a fiddle, seducing them with his beauty, money, and youth. —

Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2026 On the left, he’s heralded as the only voice capable of seducing young men disaffected by party politics. —

Abigail Sylvor Greenberg, Vanity Fair, 20 Mar. 2026 One of her alternate personalities — the cold and calculating Samantha — joins law enforcement to pursue her father’s killers, while other identities begin to surface with their own motives, seducing and manipulating powerful men as Sylvia’s search for justice veers into vengeance. —

Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 18 Mar. 2026 The show is also virtually devoid of romantic escapades, a good thing since Dumas’ novel is filled with a lot of sentimental claptrap about fighting for defenseless women’s honor or seducing virtuous maidens or going to war due to the physical beauty of a monarch. —

Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2026 Waugh walks around with a newfound swagger, playing hooky, drinking heavily, even seducing a woman at his local. —

Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026 Ian Somerhalder’s character delights in seducing aggro closeted dudes. —

Ky Henderson, Rolling Stone, 15 Feb. 2026 In the complaint, which was first filed in September in a North Carolina state court, plaintiff Heather Ammel accused Sinema of seducing her ex-husband Matthew Ammel, who began working for Sinema in April 2022 as part of her security detail. —

Chad De Guzman, Time, 16 Jan. 2026 The video featured a tired Madonna running into a mysterious man and woman in a hotel hallway, with the two seducing the singer into a night together, done as a tribute to the 1963 French film Bay of Angels, which starred Jeanne Moreau. —

Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 26 Nov. 2025

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The Big East has steadied its membership, since the conference’s revival, by adding Butler, Creighton and Xavier, luring UConn back to its rightful home, winning four men’s basketball national championships, four women’s hoops titles and now operating out of the Empire State Building.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2026
But Mizrachi sees potential for Pensacola in some of the same forces that are luring Jews to Boca and Aventure — including unhappiness among New Yorkers with the city’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani.

— Larry Luxner, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026