Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Seductive.
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- verb Present participle of
seduce .
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Examples
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It's a comic "Don Giovanni" — a count interested in seducing women — with Juan Diego Fl ó rez, the king of the high-Cs.
Taking Flight With the Met Pia Catton 2010
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If Mary succeeds in seducing the earl into her own web of treachery and treason, or if the great spymaster William Cecil links them to the growing conspiracy to free Mary from her illegal imprisonment, they will all face the headsman.
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While my being is prolonged, I must feel the disgraceful, and torturing effects of my guilt in seducing her!
The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton: A Novel Founded on Fact 1797
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The trick to doing Henry and William James scholarship would henceforth entail seducing the various James executive-heirs into believing both in one's seriousness and that one had the family's reputation foremost in mind.
The Afterlife of the Lion Joseph Epstein 2012
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We hear his criticisms of her dancing and her attitude; we witness him groping Nina's body -- what Thomas calls "seducing" but is more akin to sexual assault.
Tiffany Tsai: Seduce Me: Female Bodies in Black Swan Tiffany Tsai 2011
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We hear his criticisms of her dancing and her attitude; we witness him groping Nina's body -- what Thomas calls "seducing" but is more akin to sexual assault.
Tiffany Tsai: Seduce Me: Female Bodies in Black Swan Tiffany Tsai 2011
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We hear his criticisms of her dancing and her attitude; we witness him groping Nina's body -- what Thomas calls "seducing" but is more akin to sexual assault.
Tiffany Tsai: Seduce Me: Female Bodies in Black Swan Tiffany Tsai 2011
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One of the tycoons who helped popularize Everybody Credit and came up with the notion of seducing consumers by making it cheap or, at first, even free (then raising the rates once the consumer had built up a substantial balance), defended it in the documentary as a clever and productive business practice.
TV rarely tackles a topic that pays its bills: Misleading credit card ads 2010
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“You know, I toyed with the idea of seducing you tonight.”
Betrayed Robert K. Tanenbaum 2010
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“You know, I toyed with the idea of seducing you tonight.”
Betrayed Robert K. Tanenbaum 2010
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