Synonyms for temptress

Grammar : Noun

Spell : temp-tris

Phonetic Transcription : ˈtɛmp trɪs

Définition of temptress

Origin : 1590s, from tempter + -ess.

noun vamp

Example sentences :

Then you are nothing, less than nothing; you are the temptress, the mistress!
Extract from : « Possessed » by Cleveland Moffett

In one second he had drawn his sword and stabbed his temptress to the heart.
Extract from : « Border Ghost Stories » by Howard Pease

“If you think how to get by them, Herbert, you can,” urged the temptress.
Extract from : « The Cricket » by Marjorie Cooke

One would suppose that she is the temptress, and man is the victim.
Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Proverbs » by R. F. Horton

I believe, further, that every man has his own tempter or temptress.
Extract from : « The World's Great Sermons, Volume 9: Cuyler to Van Dyke » by Various

Maximilian thought of that other empire, which that other temptress exacted of him.
Extract from : « The Missourian » by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle

Who set you on as decoy and temptress, and what reward did you receive?
Extract from : « Out of a Labyrinth » by Lawrence L. Lynch

Not only youth must be safeguarded, but also the "female," the untrustworthy one, the temptress.
Extract from : « A Book of Prefaces » by H. L. Mencken

He was ready to kill the temptress as he would a beautiful viper.
Extract from : « The Black Douglas » by S. R. Crockett

He had told her that she tempted him, and she stood before him now as a temptress.
Extract from : « Phineas Finn » by Anthony Trollope

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