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Recent Examples of vamp
Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
Contemporary accessories, like a high-vamp kitten heel, take this power look to the next level.
—Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2025
Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 15 July 2025
Val Kilmer cuts an excellent cowl, Nicole Kidman enjoys a rare vamping role, and even Jim Carrey carries some legitimate hellzapoppin’ menace as the Riddler.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 11 July 2025
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Noun
This slick family film tells the story of Count Dracula (Adam Sandler), a vamp who just wants to throw a rocking house party.
—Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
Contemporary accessories, like a high-vamp kitten heel, take this power look to the next level.
—Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
Tonight the castle was lit up like a movie set with klieg lights and scores of Cinecittà extras vamping as cardinals.
—Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 15 July 2025
Val Kilmer cuts an excellent cowl, Nicole Kidman enjoys a rare vamping role, and even Jim Carrey carries some legitimate hellzapoppin’ menace as the Riddler.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 11 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vamp
Noun
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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
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In Riviera Romance, feminine silhouettes and prints were more elevated compared to last spring’s coquette styling.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
31 Oct. 2025
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Goth’s look put a gothic spin on the coquette aesthetic, with her hair in a half-up, half-down style and fringe to frame her face.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
7 Oct. 2025
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Picks like the Express Ultrasoft Relaxed Crew Neck ($68) are easy to throw on and head out the door thanks to a crew fit with loose sleeves and ribbed hem.—
Kristin Braswell,
Travel + Leisure,
2 Nov. 2025
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This $50 style has a slightly short hem and similar ribbing around the neckline, cuffs, and hem to the oversized option.—
Ali Faccenda,
PEOPLE,
2 Nov. 2025
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But Tatum is more than just your garden-variety charmer.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
10 Oct. 2025
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Even an effortless charmer like Glen Powell can have awkward encounters with other celebrities.—
Mekishana Pierre,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Sep. 2025
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She is gifted with a lovely color of a lyric soprano suitable for roles in the spectrum from a lyric, lyric coloratura to a soubrette.—
Heide Janssen,
Orange County Register,
16 Mar. 2025
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Not only did diners want to enjoy her singing in the cabaret, no doubt many could not resist coming to see for themselves the soubrette who had inspired such fury in the late George VI.—
Olivia Williams,
Town & Country,
1 June 2021
Verb
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Since then, Phlur has debuted another new body mist, Cashmere Skin, and teased a new Afterglow Eau de Parfum to launch before the end of the year.—
Noor Lobad,
Footwear News,
11 Nov. 2025
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Said Stanton, who wrote the screenplay for the original pic and won Animated Feature Oscars for directing Finding Nemo and Wall-E, and Harris did tease more in today’s press release announcing the trailer.—
Patrick Hipes,
Deadline,
11 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Unfortunately, Monroe’s efforts to get deep into the world of a scheming seductress with a very mean streak is one of the few things in this film that really work.—
Matthew Jackson,
Vulture,
22 Oct. 2025
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They were confined to negative archetypes: the villain who had lost his Indian values, or the seductress whose drinking and smoking habits signaled moral corruption.—
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
20 Oct. 2025
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In northern Colombia, a Yupa man drinks and flirts with a bat on his way home from hunting.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
29 Oct. 2025
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Cancer: Pamela Anderson Pamela Anderson makes a cameo at the film's beginning and flirts with Fred.—
Lisa Stardust,
PEOPLE,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Vamp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vamp. Accessed 21 Nov. 2025.
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