seductive
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From Latin sēduct-, past-participle stem of sēdūcere, + -ive.
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seductive (comparative more seductive, superlative most seductive)
- Attractive, alluring, tempting.
- Evil is said to be seductive, which is one reason why people do what they know they shouldn't.
- 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
- The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it. […] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
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with nouns
- seductive woman
- seductive lady
- seductive girl
- seductive power
- seductive art
- seductive image
- seductive behavior
- seductive smile
- seductive dress
- seductive dance
- seductive tango
- seductive song
- seductive look
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attractive, alluring, tempting
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