(n.) One who, or that which, seduces; specifically, one who prevails over the chastity of a woman by enticements and persuasions.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seduced into believing they could be a big influencer in Platini’s new Fifa, they rushed unthinkingly to back him.
(2) One wing of the party wants Ed Miliband to take the fight to Ukip; the other calls for a more emollient approach so as not to insult or upset former Labour supporters who have been seduced by the Faragian view of things.
(3) Saying that he had been “hung out to dry”, Blackburn denied in evidence that he had ever been interviewed by BBC staff about an episode dating back to 1971 when it was suggested that he had been involved in “seducing” 15-year-old Claire McAlpine after meeting her at a recording of Top of the Pops.
(4) It's only when they consider being seduced by the conventional rock'n'roll life that they get serious.
(5) And this sort of reading works, up to a point: Eusa is humanity seduced by knowledge and power, the Littl Shynin Man is the atom, and both unleash terrible chaos when split.
(6) Tony Hayward, chief executive of the UK's largest oil company, said that British government ministers risked being seduced by "headline-grabbing options" such as offshore wind and clean coal in a bid to bolster energy security and meet climate-change goals.
(7) In this, Trump’s greatest assets are a public that demands nothing too complicated from the arbiters of political discourse and a media culture that is all too eager to oblige.” Trump, the pick-up artist who seduced America Publication: The Spectator (UK) Author: Hugo Rifkind Rifkind writes for the Spectator and the Times, and while he has supported liberal social measures and even joined Labour to vote against Jeremy Corbyn, he comes from Tory stock, and is best understood as a moderate conservative.
(8) Also, remember that Don was also almost seduced by alternative lifestyles before, only to find that the people practising them were entirely shallow.
(9) However, she is the most astute image-shaper in sport bar none, seducing swathes of tame tennis writers to plug her sweets, charming hosts with just a hint of a smile, disarming critics with a pursed-lip frostiness of which Madonna would be proud.
(10) Even the ones who you think are American are probably Canadian.” In its profile of Whishaw, the New York Times noted how, as an actor, he rejects the idea of type and has a “slippery way of inhabiting heroes and antiheroes alike, of seducing women and men on screen and on stage with equal ease”.
(11) They too have also been developing homegrown talent and using a diverse scouting network to find hidden gems in the Ukrainian second division watching the Euros, and seen that Spain have a winger called Nolito , and that he doesn’t play for Barcelona, Real Madrid or Atlético Madrid, and are ready to bet that he also has the capacity to be seduced by money, initial optimism and birthday cake.
(12) The young did vote a bit more in 2010 than in 2005, seduced by the Lib Dem fees pledge , but no broken promise was ever better designed to disillusion first-time voters.
(13) He'd become lazy and complacent, seduced by alcohol and drugs.
(14) "We got together in LA without her, just to see what we got, like we could seduce her in the process, come up with something that would tickle her ears and she'd go: 'Oh wow, you guys are really up to something good here'.
(15) Public health can articulate this to a public sector which has been seduced by the over-extended promise of nudge, which has its place but is not a panacea and the counsel of despair that we can't plan long-term.
(16) The maid, Monika, "the prime originator" of Freud's neurosis, seduced him, chastised him, and taught him of hell.
(17) In ancient myth, Jupiter took the form of a swan to seduce Leda.
(18) To read some of our tabloid newspapers – which are not adverse to showing the odd bare breast – you might be seduced into thinking that the still-unfolding scandal of faulty breast implants made by the French firm Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) was just about vain women seeking Barbie Doll-style boob jobs.
(19) And I have a dream that stupid songs about seducing "good girls" will be laughed at instead of sent to No 1.
(20) After all, he was an accomplished viola player before the lure of the guitar seduced him.
Seductress
Definition:
(n.) A woman who seduces.
Example Sentences:
(1) Movie stereotypes that contribute to the stigmatization of mentally ill persons include the mental patient as rebellious free spirit, homicidal maniac, seductress, enlightened member of society, narcissistic parasite, and zoo specimen.
(2) A practising Christian who had always had 'problems' with the Bible's portrayal of women from Eve onwards as dangerous seductresses, she loved the Koran for its sense of 'justice and equality' and, after living without alcohol and 'casual relationships' for a year - 'I wanted to see if I could do it; no point deciding to become a Muslim, then falling off a bar stool shouting, "more champagne!"'
(3) Elizabeth Banks, meanwhile, has real form as a proper movie star but the big guns come out in her comedies: her bathtub seductress in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, her action heroine in The Lego Movie , or her riotous turn in Modern Family, where you suddenly appreciate her full-tilt comic bravado.
(4) Rochelle Sterling, the Clippers owner's wife, recently filed a lawsuit against Stiviano that depicted her as a seductress who embezzled $1.8m in the form of $240,000 in cash, a duplex, a Ferrari, two Bentleys and a Range Rover – all apparent gifts from the tycoon.
(5) Battle-axe, seductress, mother or pet, consciously or not we all tend to fit women at the top into one of those categories.
(6) She can sound like a seductress, a mother, a man, or Elvis .
(7) Nonetheless, she is the book's only potent character, a smooth, confident seductress, using Benjamin for sex while he is her more or less passive object.