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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
seductive
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a charming and seductive man
▪ From across the room, I noticed that Philip was giving me a seductive stare.
▪ L.A. is a dangerous yet seductive city.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ She has never looked more luminous, and her screen presence has never been more commanding: a seductive and redemptive intelligence.
▪ Sport is but one and, seductive as it may be, it is precarious and, inevitably, short-term.
▪ The Lilith-like Herodias and Salome have a certain seductive, manipulative power, but it is negative and destructive.
▪ The logic is seductive, but misguided.
▪ The view of the city from the Circle Line ferry is seductive, unreal.
▪ Tobacco is barred from the seductive small screen while spirits are subject to a voluntary telly ban.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seductive

Seductive \Se*duc"tive\, a. Tending to lead astray; apt to mislead by flattering appearances; tempting; alluring; as, a seductive offer.

This may enable us to understand how seductive is the influence of example.
--Sir W. Hamilton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
seductive

1740, from Latin seduct-, past participle stem of seducere (see seduce) + -ive. Related: Seductively; seductiveness. Middle English had seducious "deceitful, devious" (mid-15c.).

Wiktionary
seductive

a. attractive, alluring, tempting.

WordNet
seductive

adj. tending to entice into a desired action or state [ant: unseductive]

Usage examples of "seductive".

A flush of heat engulfed Abie as she watched the slow, seductive movements of the dancers on the stage.

The trees had the thickest of canopies, stunningly clothed in the reds and golds and russets of their autumn canopies: I spent many an hour while Achates slept in my arms watching their seductive dancing against the sky.

A girl who is exceptionally beautiful, on the other hand, who has something which too far surpasses the customary seductive freshness of adolescence, appears somehow unreal.

The voice was low, and Ancar had the feeling it could be pleasant, even seductive, if the owner chose.

The awesome, aperiodic double helixwith its seductive suggestion of encoded information assembling an entire organismspread before him at twenty-one, wider than the American Wilderness.

But even as Americans correctly contrasted the freedom of the American way of life with the coercive constraints of life in the Communist bloc, they often forgot the seductive constraints of their own seemingly apolitical system.

The seductive fragrance was stronger now, leading her to the wide stone staircase, beckoning her above.

Still, Cade had known the dark side of such abilities too long to find them seductive.

And how darkly handsome Capa was in this picture, the strong masculine features, the thick black brows and hair, the smoldering dark eyes, the seductive mouth all added up to one helluva knockout of a guy.

He tried hard to ignore her seductive perfume, and her beautifully manicured fingernails, and her perfect smile, which was surely just her being pleasant, because women of her age and beauty and obvious sophistication were not supposed to be attracted to young men like Chub Farrell.

I felt that all was lost, all the more as having to use both her hands she could not hold her smock and conceal two swelling spheres more seductive than the apples of the Hesperides.

The girl made no reply, but, as if she could not reach the fruit, she put her foot on a high branch, and spewed me the most seductive picture.

The seductive features of this charming girl were not altogether unknown to me, but I could not recollect of what woman she reminded me.

Stretched by her side beneath the light duvet, naked flesh to naked flesh, Blaze was exploring the seductive curve of her breast when something about her stillness made him pause.

The seductive vixen cleared the archway and disappeared toward the garderobe on the left.