temptress

One of her foils, Michael, is played by Gaten Matarazzo, that winsome kid from “Stranger Things”; Michael responds with sweet-natured goofiness to Honor’s temptress moves.

From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2022

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

Loveliness, in fiction, typically graces a pair of archetypes: the angel and the temptress.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2018

“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

Danielle Darrieux, a luminous beauty of French cinema whose portrayals of wistful ingenues, romantic temptresses and tragic adulteresses spanned more than eight decades, died Oct.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 19, 2017

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