as in siren
a woman whom men find irresistibly attractive
in the movie she played Cleopatra, one of history's most famous seductresses
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Recent Examples of seductress
The woman behind the enchanting seductress at the center of the song was a bank teller who was, according to Parton, overly-familiar with her husband.
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Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 4 Mar. 2025
Holding an axe, she was portrayed as a murderous, wealth-seeking seductress who had beheaded her husbands, evident by their heads disappearing from the wedding portraits scattered around the attic.
—Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
Catherine is a tease, a seductress — a teenager’s wet dream and a mother’s worst nightmare.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2024
The problem is that she’s cast herself in the part of a 16-year-old seductress.
—Kathryn Vandervalk, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2024
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Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 4 Mar. 2025
Holding an axe, she was portrayed as a murderous, wealth-seeking seductress who had beheaded her husbands, evident by their heads disappearing from the wedding portraits scattered around the attic.
—Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
Catherine is a tease, a seductress — a teenager’s wet dream and a mother’s worst nightmare.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2024
The problem is that she’s cast herself in the part of a 16-year-old seductress.
—Kathryn Vandervalk, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seductress
siren
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The trooper saw a Mercedes-Benz E300 traveling at excessive speed on I-91 south near Cromwell and tried to initiate a traffic stop with lights and sirens.—
Madison Lambert,
NBC news,
6 June 2025
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The trooper wasn’t able to catch up or turn on the squad’s emergency lights or sirens before Thompson cut across all four lanes of traffic and turned off the interstate at Lake Street.—
Nick Ferraro,
Twin Cities,
6 June 2025
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“Seductress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seductress. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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