sex symbol

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sex symbol
Noun
  • The front-runner dropped the family-friendly persona and went full-on sexpot with his shirtless salsa.
    Lynette Rice, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
  • This is one of those romantic musical-chairs situations in which couples pair off and try to keep one another interested while other sexpots cycle through the house and try to split up the power pairs.
    Laura Bradley, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • There is a femme fatale feel with lingerie details.
    Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Even at 19, she was seen as a femme fatale.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Stoker’s Frankensteined creation was born from the history of the Anglo-literary vampire that begins with Polidori’s Ruthven, the first aristocratic, Byronesque and demonic seducer.
    Robert Eggers, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But Tatum is more than just your garden-variety charmer.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Even an effortless charmer like Glen Powell can have awkward encounters with other celebrities.
    Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The former screen siren was fined nearly $25,000 in 2008 after being convicted of provoking discrimination and racial hatred for writing that Muslims are destroying her country.
    Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Twelve years on, watching the footage, the siren still rings.
    Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
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“Sex symbol.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sex%20symbol. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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