What's the difference between seductress and temptress?

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.

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.

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