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Recent Examples of vampy
Roan wore her signature long curly red hair in a voluminous half-up 'do and rocked a smokey, vampy glam look.
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Meg Walters, InStyle, 21 Feb. 2026
Those clawlike acrylics of last season gave way to an entire vampy, gothy, witchy, femme fatale through-line on the runways.
—Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2026
Released earlier this spring, the vampy film also stars actresses Hailee Steinfeld (Mary), Jayme Lawson (Pearline) and Wunmi Mosaku (Annie).
—Pamela Avila, USA Today, 19 Nov. 2025
The vampy logo’d lace-ups have sock-like uppers and a cool rounded toe.
—Gretta Monahan, Boston Herald, 16 Oct. 2025
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Meg Walters, InStyle, 21 Feb. 2026
Those clawlike acrylics of last season gave way to an entire vampy, gothy, witchy, femme fatale through-line on the runways.
—Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2026
Released earlier this spring, the vampy film also stars actresses Hailee Steinfeld (Mary), Jayme Lawson (Pearline) and Wunmi Mosaku (Annie).
—Pamela Avila, USA Today, 19 Nov. 2025
The vampy logo’d lace-ups have sock-like uppers and a cool rounded toe.
—Gretta Monahan, Boston Herald, 16 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vampy
Adjective
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Land’s writings from the nineties have a seductive danger, envisioning a sci-fi future of synthetic drugs, black-market brain implants, gene editing, and cyborgs.—
James Duesterberg,
New Yorker,
18 Feb. 2026
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But over-familiarity is, for the most part, swept away by a production of stunning, seductive imagination and bravura execution.—
Demetrios Matheou,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The owner of The Jessica Simpson Collection’s darker hair was worn down and long and parted in the center, and her glam consisted of a sultry smokey eye.—
Rachel Burchfield,
InStyle,
10 Feb. 2026
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Released just a couple of days before Christmas, the festive cover finds Jung Kook delivering some of his sultriest vocals to date.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
26 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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The look stays clean yet alluring with the right amount of shine to catch the eye.—
Amanda Le,
InStyle,
27 Feb. 2026
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While the resolution to this dilemma ends up somewhat easy, the film remains an alluring liberal power fantasy about challenging systems from within.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
23 Feb. 2026
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“Vampy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vampy. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
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