seductresses

noun

plural of seductress
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. — S. C. Cornell, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
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sirens
Noun
  • Merz and Zelenskyy visited a building of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in central Kyiv that was damaged in a Russian attack that killed two people on Monday, as air raid sirens sounded across the capital.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Air raid sirens blare day and night, warning residents of oncoming fire and sending people running underground.
    — Dmytro Kuleba, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2026
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“Seductresses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seductresses. Accessed 7 Oct. 2026.

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