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sex symbol

noun as in person who is sexual ideal

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Your career has parallels to Brando’s in the sense that you have been a sex symbol and still are to some, I expect.

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She described her co-star, who was recently nominated for an Oscar for Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unkown, as "a thinking man's sex symbol".

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“He’s such a thinking man’s sex symbol,” she said.

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In “The Last Showgirl,” Anderson’s first solo lead in a movie since 1996’s “Barb Wire,” she plays Shelly, a veteran Las Vegas dancer accustomed to being a sex symbol.

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It saw her branded a sex symbol, and she has spoken about being typecast as a result.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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