What's the difference between maneater and temptress?

Maneater


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tonight they’re dancing the Jive to 'Maneater' by Hall and Oates.
  • (2) The News of the World then passed her around the entire Premier League, explaining that "Serial Wag Vanessa Perroncel was last night branded a voracious football maneater who hunted down her lovers using a Premier League fixture list."
  • (3) She became a fictional object on whom journalists projected classic stereotypes: the beautiful woman who was "gagging for it", as the News of the World put it; "shameless", a "maneater", a "football groupie" in the words of the other papers; the "gold digger" who was "money hungry", seducing men for their wallets.
  • (4) According to Furtado's label, the Maneater singer will soon reveal which charity will be the beneficiary of the Gaddafi concert fee.

Temptress


Definition:

  • (n.) A woman who entices.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gerwig played the vacillating temptress in Hannah Takes the Stairs , the long-distance lover in Nights and Weekends , a jittery scream queen in the Duplass brothers’ Baghead .
  • (2) But out in The Real World, leopard print still has ridiculous connotations, such as the ones I mentioned above: Bet Lynch, untrustworthy temptresses, blah blah blah.
  • (3) "It's a term which harks back to a biblical interpretation of Eve as a seductive temptress who is responsible for the behaviour of the men around her," explains 23-year-old Aisha Zakira, a columnist and the founder of Hollaback!
  • (4) He persuaded a pretty policewoman to pose as a sadistic temptress.
  • (5) Enter Parsifal, a "pure fool" and Christ-like redeemer figure, who alone can resist the lure of Klingsor's harpies, restore the spear to the knights, cure Amfortas and give Klingsor's arch-temptress Kundry the release from earthly life she so ardently desires.
  • (6) So it moved to programmes – including one in which alleged Beckham temptress Rebecca Loos hand-pleasured a pig – that surrendered what critical reputation it had.
  • (7) Cleopatra She was the 1st century BC pharaoh of Egypt and Rome's favourite exotic temptress.
  • (8) A lot of times they are a siren temptress beckoning me with the promise of a much shorter, simpler, more slender novel over the horizon, but of course that's very dangerous.

Words possibly related to "maneater"

Words possibly related to "temptress"