seduction
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Synonyms for seduction
Synonyms
allurement, enticement, lure, temptation
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The Laundromat, playing in competition at the Venice Film Festival and released by Netflix, begins as a seduction and ends as a manifesto. — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, "Steven Soderbergh’s The Laundromat Does More Than Explain the Panama Papers—It’s a Rallying Cry Against Greed," 1 Sep. 2019 That is east of the Industrial Canal and across the Danziger Bridge from the glamorous notion of New Orleans — of French Quarter gaslights, street musicians and laissez les bon temps rouler seduction — that feeds the world’s imagination. — Lynell George, Los Angeles Times, "Review: Sarah M. Broom shows her New Orleans in ‘The Yellow House’," 9 Aug. 2019 Murder, crime, seduction, private eyes, femme fatales, and ridiculous metaphors. — Lisa Herendeen, The Mercury News, "S.F. Bay Area calendar: Greek festival, comedy and more," 25 Aug. 2019 The objects could have been part of ritualistic jewelry used in ceremonies for things fertility, seduction, or to look for omens about a birth or pregnancy. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, "A Sorceress’s Kit Was Discovered in the Ashes of Pompeii," 14 Aug. 2019 Six easygoing seductions about various shades of love, lust and loneliness, the record mixes casual guitar lines, muffled percussion and thrift store keyboards. — Los Angeles Times, "Meet the teenage old souls making dreamy Latinx pop, from their bedroom to yours," 14 Aug. 2019 There is a seduction that gets interrupted by a worm followed by even further cyber-posturing, but eventually Nat sets her eyes on the real prize: becoming the actual Mrs. Massimo. — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, "Penetration testing takes on new meaning when cyber meets Harlequin," 5 July 2019 There are scenes of seduction, intrigue, frivolity and betrayal, all leading up to the final events that take on the appearance of a farce (though not French). — Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News, "Theater review: Coward’s ‘Present Laughter’ opens at Pear Theatre," 12 June 2019 Yet this Orientalism preferred to recast the West’s violent conquests as consensual interactions: seductions, not rapes. — Adam Shatz, The New York Review of Books, "‘Orientalism,’ Then and Now," 20 May 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'seduction.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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