sex symbol

noun

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  1. sexpot
  2. femme fatale
  3. seducer
  4. charmer
  5. siren
Noun
  • The season gradually showcases Warner, who finds the bruised psyche beneath her character’s sexpot surface and delivers cutting dialogue with a precision that calls to mind Murphy blondes including Emma Roberts, Leslie Bibb and Billie Lourd.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Whether career girl or sexpot, gender bender or grande dame, Saint Laurent’s women were always new, and for the designer, newness was the most natural and inevitable thing in the world.
    — Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of sexpot
Noun
  • Gilpin makes the perfect femme fatale for the show’s loose riff on a noir.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026
  • In Lowen’s overactive imagination, Hathaway plays a Hitchcockian femme fatale always wearing her signature color, red.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of femme fatale
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
Definition of seducer
Noun
  • Anthropic advertises a salary floor of $265,000 for charmers willing to spend half their time on the road in increasingly hostile territory.
    — J.D. Capelouto, semafor.com, 30 Oct. 2026
  • With something smart and pertinent to say about relationships between men and women, happiness and love, jealousy and longing and other matters of the heart, Wicker is the year’s most unexpected charmer.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of charmer
Noun
  • The siren was loud, and the LED ring did a good job of letting visitors know that they were being observed.
    — John R. Delaney, PC Magazine, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Crowds of people then shuffled through packed hallways to exit the building, their hands raised and sirens blaring around them, the video shows.
    — Joe Sutton, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of siren
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“Sex symbol.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sex%20symbol. Accessed 9 Nov. 2026.

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