Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a seductive manner; with seduction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a seductive manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
seductive manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a tempting seductive manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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Corduroy and cashmere beckon seductively from the covers of fashion magazines, and the department stores want to sell you boots and sweaters.
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Corduroy and cashmere beckon seductively from the covers of fashion magazines, and the department stores want to sell you boots and sweaters.
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Corduroy and cashmere beckon seductively from the covers of fashion magazines, and the department stores want to sell you boots and sweaters.
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I think this season they are just pandering to fangirls of House/Wilson to 1) reel them in seductively and 2) to show every possible thing so they don't have to deal with it anymore!
"I love this man." tragic_elegance 2010
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I think this season they are just pandering to fangirls of House/Wilson to 1) reel them in seductively and 2) to show every possible thing so they don't have to deal with it anymore!
I summon Kuriboh, in attack mode! tragic_elegance 2010
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Judge Posner is especially dangerous because he clothes his radicalism in seductively realistic and reasonable-sounding words — as if he’s just being a straight-talker, nothing new, nothing shocking.
Balkinization 2006
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Judge Posner is especially dangerous because he clothes his radicalism in seductively realistic and reasonable-sounding words — as if he’s just being a straight-talker, nothing new, nothing shocking.
Balkinization 2006
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I have found Judge Posner to uniformly be what I impertinently think of as a Social Darwinist Apologist, one who, as Professor Tamanaha so eloquently puts it, "clothes his radicalism in seductively realistic and reasonable-sounding words --- as if he’s just being a straight-talker, nothing new, nothing shocking".
Balkinization 2006
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So, I was sitting there reading "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" by Stephen Crane, all proud-like that I hadn't let myself get distracted by anything else, when I read this line: "The open mouth of a saloon called seductively to passengers to enter and annihilate sorrow or create rage."
elephants Diary Entry elephants 2001
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The open mouth of a saloon called seductively to passengers to enter and annihilate sorrow or create rage.
Maggie, a Girl of the Streets Stephen Crane 1885
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