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Examples of temptress in a Sentence
Greta Garbo, one of the most famous temptresses ever to appear on screen, died in 1990.
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Indeed, the movie’s sexiest scene finds our temptress entering Kei’s room and wordlessly taking nude photos of herself on his bed.
—Natalia Winkelman, IndieWire, 22 Sep. 2024
On television in the 1960s, Rowlands played the deaf-mute wife of a detective in the NBC series 87th Precinct and was the temptress Adrienne Van Leyden on ABC’s Peyton Place.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
The ambitious temptress is remade and in the process defanged.
—Lyz Lenz, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2024
This squinty vantage on Southern California, as a temptress who dashes hopes, also was evident in his script for Tequila Sunrise (1988), which starred Mel Gibson as a retired drug dealer, Kurt Russell as a cop and Michelle Pfeiffer as the femme fatale.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Word History
First Known Use
1594, in the meaning defined above
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“Temptress.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/temptress. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
temptress
noun
tempt·ress
ˈtem(p)-trəs
: a woman who tempts
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