sex symbol

noun

Definition of sex symbolnext
as in sexpot

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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
  • At the center of it all was Anna Chapman (née Kushchenko) — the femme fatale turned media sensation.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 5 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
  • And Howell is Huckleberry, likable underdog and farm boy charmer.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • James Patrick Donleavy, 20, and Gainor Steven Crist, a feckless charmer from Dayton, Ohio, were out of the Navy.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of charmer
Noun
  • Air raid sirens blare day and night, warning residents of oncoming fire and sending people running underground.
    — Dmytro Kuleba, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2026
  • According to the complaint, ICE officers pursued Garces-Perez through commercial and residential areas with emergency lights and sirens activated.
    — Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 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 7 Oct. 2026.

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