temptress

By 1381, the duke's reputation was at an all time low, and Swynford was targeted as "an abominable temptress."

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2022

He later directed her at the Met, where she sang the title role in a new staging of Bizet's Carmen, portraying the heroine as a "pouty teenager" rather than the sultry temptress of most productions.

From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2022

The Warner Bros. movie, starring Paul Muni as an Eastside lawyer named Johnny Ramirez and Bette Davis as the temptress whom he spurns, was popular when released.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2021

On Dec. 4, at 18, she made her Met debut as the temptress Philine in Ambroise Thomas’s “Mignon,” wearing a good-luck ring and a crown lent to her by the soprano Lily Pons.

From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2016

“And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

Late in 2021, Wallen was featured on a hip-hop single by the rapper Lil Durk, “Broadway Girls,” singing about the temptresses of Nashville’s Lower Broadway honky-tonks.

From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2023

Through their story, Miller and Wheeler aim to re-shape the legend of King Arthur by placing women in positions of power as opposed to relegating them to mere objects of desire or sinister temptresses.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2020

But the male figures in the Theranos narrative have a whole lot in common with men as #MeToo’s opponents often present them — hapless prey taken for a ride by opportunists or temptresses.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2019

Of all the temptresses in Dark Shadows, Green most acutely understands how to play for both humor and horror.

From Time ● May 10, 2012

Odysseus filled the ears of his crews with wax, bidding them to tie him to the mast of his ship and to row hard past the temptresses in spite of his strugglings.

From Authors of Greece by T. W. Lumb