as in sirens
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 seductresses
Once again, a defense lawyer attempted to paint the women as lying, scheming seductresses.
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S. C. Cornell, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
S. C. Cornell, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for seductresses
sirens
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Tornado sirens and weather alerts send us to shelter in our bathtub from spring into summer, when hurricane season begins and then runs into fall.—
Erin Austen Abbott,
The Atlantic,
1 Feb. 2026
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Druzhyna drove his wife and daughter west, past sirens and explosions, toward the border with Poland.—
Natalie Yahr,
jsonline.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Seductresses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seductresses. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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