What's the difference between flirtatious and seductive?

Flirtatious


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If the news that Wendi Deng had joined her husband Rupert Murdoch on Twitter and promptly engaged in flirtatious banter with the likes of Ricky Gervais seemed too good to be true, that's because it was.
  • (2) The slick Foxtons website shows packs of tanned, beaming, sometimes flirtatious staff holding beers, up mountains, playing beach volleyball.
  • (3) Scuccia, who is from Sicily, has sung alongside Kylie Minogue and Ricky Martin, while, a flirtatious panel judge, Italian rapper J-Ax, said she could be the "holy water" to his "devil".
  • (4) Several witnesses described Maureen McDonnell’s relationship with the wealthy vitamin executive as inappropriate and flirtatious.
  • (5) Johnson’s barrister, Orlando Pownall QC, wrote in a legal note shortly after the midfielder’s arrest that he admitted kissing the 15-year-old and sending her flirtatious messages.
  • (6) In Mansfield Park , Thomas Bertram boastfully describes his flirtatious behaviour in Ramsgate with the younger Miss Sneyd, whoever she be.
  • (7) But the Tory MP Penny Mordaunt said the Lib Dems were motivated by "spite, pettiness and self-interest" and were making "flirtatious glances" to Labour as potential coalition partners following the 2015 poll.
  • (8) Although she always rejected single issue politics as a distraction from socialism (like Margaret Thatcher, she was a politician who was also a woman - tough, flirtatious, vain, often hot tempered, capable of tears in moments of drama - rather than a woman politician) and she brutally dismissed recent attempts to make Westminster a kinder, gentler place, her most enduring achievements came on behalf of women.
  • (9) In person she's just as impressive – quick, perceptive and teasingly flirtatious – but she also reveals a vulnerability that takes not just me but herself by surprise.
  • (10) "For this reason, the question I am asked most frequently is why am I so against the 'harmlessly flirtatious' piropo .
  • (11) Weiner reportedly admitted to the Daily Mail that he had engaged in flirtatious exchanges with the girl but did not comment further on any of the specific allegations.
  • (12) In a fortnight’s time, the federal court was to begin deciding if the weirdly flirtatious relationship between the gay former PR for a strawberry farm and the then federal parliamentary Speaker, Peter Slipper, constituted sexual harassment.
  • (13) I will regularly post flirtatious comments on your timeline wall for all your Facebook friends to see."
  • (14) A rare and expensive lot up for auction on eBay this week provides epistolary evidence that the man-who-will-be-king was once a hot-blooded young sailor with an eye for the ladies and a knack for flirtatious correspondence.
  • (15) Other hit silent(ish) comedies included award-winning Aussie show The Hermitude of Angus , Ecstatic, and, best of all, a blissful set from that flirtatious clown Doctor Brown .
  • (16) She is the impeccably connected journalist turned television chef whose gourmet recipes and flirtatious on-screen presence earned her the nickname the "domestic goddess" and generated a fortune estimated at £15m.
  • (17) So it is with Boris Johnson , the most flirtatious practitioner of political brinksmanship in living memory.
  • (18) For mums and dads, the only option is to stand firm, turn off the telly, and try to persuade your issue that what they really want is a nice bit of cheddar, and not a spreadable cheese product flogged by a flirtatious cartoon farm animal.
  • (19) While the Bond films have moved away from the series' more cartoonish roots in the last decade, recent 007 entry Skyfall did reintroduce such classic characters as gadget man Q and M's flirtatious secretary, Moneypenny.
  • (20) As any journalist who has met her will attest, Courtney Love's brand of conversation is smart, funny and frank, but wildly unpredictable, leaping from one topic to another as dramatically as her mood changes: she can go from flirtatious to furious to diffident and back again in the space of a minute.

Seductive


Definition:

  • (a.) Tending to lead astray; apt to mislead by flattering appearances; tempting; alluring; as, a seductive offer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pictures of the Social Network star emerged on Twitter and Instagram on Wednesday, showing Garfield in full costume for Punchdrunk's current show, The Drowned Man , chewing seductively on a stick of straw .
  • (2) It is 17 years since Klein, then aged 30, published her first book, No Logo – a seductive rage against the branding of public life by globalising corporations – and made herself, in the words of the New Yorker , “ the most visible and influential figure on the American left ” almost overnight.
  • (3) It was ambitious, experimental and sometimes downright odd – but seductively, compulsively readable too.
  • (4) These originated in the Bou Denib oases in Morocco, and have a fine flavour and seductively smooth texture.
  • (5) But the opposite dentition can also dictate a fixture installation in the posterior region for a good occlusal stabilization: a specific modality of fixture installation in the pterygoid region has provided a seductive alternative.
  • (6) Other reasons for using a chaperone included a patient with emotional problems, a history of rape or sexual abuse, a seductive patient, an uncomfortable patient or physician, a first pelvic examination, and medicolegal issues.
  • (7) At the moment, alternative treatment start to emerge such as selective vascular catheterism with ejectable balloon which become more feasible and seductive.
  • (8) This was a man who publicly stated: ‘No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical, or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep, burning hatred for the Tory party.’ In today’s political climate, where politicians are careful, tentative, scared of saying what they feel for fear of alienating a part of the electorate; where under the excuse of trying to appear electable, all parties drift into a morass of bland neutrality; and the real deals, the real values we suspect, are kept behind closed doors – is it any wonder that people feel there is very little to choose between?
  • (9) I half expected it to end with the Houser brothers dressed as Papa Lazarou from League of Gentlemen staring into the camera and whispering seductively, "you all live in Los Santos now".
  • (10) A few of us went to see my friend Norman (Fatboy Slim) play at a nightclub called Seduction in Patong recently.
  • (11) Chris – lassoed from a parallel universe where Tom Cruise gave Hollywood a swerve to focus on taking his guitar-alt-musings to open mic spots instead – looks on, coldly dissecting technique and cutting to seduction tips.
  • (12) The third style, which included respondents most satisfied with their sexual responsivity, was characterized by women who were more aware of physiological changes during sexual arousal and who enjoyed gently seductive erotic activities, breast stimulation, and genital stimulation.
  • (13) He brought movement to modern architecture, and invented a version of it that was expressive and seductive , clearly not functional, and clearly different from the Germanic glass box of the Bauhaus.
  • (14) There had been some whispered talk leading up to this match of that seductive vice known as Messidependencia , with some fearing this team might become too centred on its No10, soft-pedalling to its detriment those other high-end attacking talents.
  • (15) His side were at their seductive best only once, on the stroke of half-time.
  • (16) There are also personal revolutions: the idea of the equal, committed, but "open" relationship, as practised by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir , for whom "the game of love" – the rondo of seduction, rejection and change – never had to end.
  • (17) The user of audiovisual methods not only has to consider the special needs of the psychic ill, but also has to face critically the seduction ways of this potential medium.
  • (18) By means of seduction or its opposite, intimidation and the use of threats, the object is made to believe the content of the denying persons's inner or external world.
  • (19) More than 27m of the books, which tell of a billionaire's seduction of a college student, were sold in the UK and Commonwealth countries, Vintage Books said, with more than 45m copies sold in the US, and one million or more sold in Germany, France, Spain, Brazil, and Holland.
  • (20) "It's very seductive and I've done it a certain amount, but it does take a terrific toll.