(n.) A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.
Example Sentences:
(1) The series opener of Sherlock – watched live by almost 10 million people – updated Arthur Conan Doyle's A Scandal in Bohemia , the short story in which Holmes is, unusually, outwitted by an acute American adventuress in possession of a compromising picture of the Bohemian king.
(2) The story that unfolded was one of the most remarkable I had ever heard, concerning an art theft by the O'Donoghue twins in America, a marriage to an American adventuress, a burglary at a house in Wimbledon, the death of Carstairs' mother and a mysterious stranger.
(3) In the original story, Irene Adler is an adventuress who outwits Holmes; in Sherlock, as Jones put it: "She's become a high-class dominatrix saved only from certain death by the dramatic intervention of our hero."
(4) "Great ladies, bourgeoises, adventuresses - they are all the same.
Demirep
Definition:
(n.) A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress.