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Synonyms for seductively


Grammar : Adv
Spell : si-duhk-tiv
Phonetic Transcription : sɪˈdʌk tɪv

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Définition of seductively

Origin :
  • 1740, from Latin seduct-, past participle stem of seducere (see seduce) + -ive. Related: Seductively; seductiveness. Middle English had seducious "deceitful, devious" (mid-15c.).
  • As in beautifully : adv in an attractive or pleasing manner
Example sentences :
  • And yet how bedecked oftentimes' How seductively ornamented!
  • Extract from : « Beyond Good and Evil » by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • The very look and the sound of her were sweet, seductively sweet.
  • Extract from : « The House of Fulfilment » by George Madden Martin
  • But she leaned not imperatively, not seductively, but wistfully and humbly.
  • Extract from : « Martin Eden » by Jack London
  • Like a spectral invitation, those five letters, F-a-n-n-y, gleamed before him so seductively.
  • Extract from : « A Hungarian Nabob » by Maurus Jkai
  • They 'doctored' some rabbit paunches with strychnine cunningly enough, and laid them seductively in the field.
  • Extract from : « Lives of the Fur Folk » by M. D. Haviland
  • Her statuesque and seductively lovely limbs only craved for the writhings of pleasure, not the pangs of maternity.
  • Extract from : « His Excellency the Minister » by Jules Claretie
  • And yet she looks so seductively daring that he smiles, softens, and kisses Cecil in a passion of tenderness.
  • Extract from : « Floyd Grandon's Honor » by Amanda Minnie Douglas
  • And behind him was money and opportunity, freedom and London, a great background of seductively indistinct hopes.
  • Extract from : « Kipps » by H. G. Wells
  • He had said it times without number to Fanny, but first—how seductively virginal she had been—on a veranda at night.
  • Extract from : « Cytherea » by Joseph Hergesheimer
  • The ways of children, their moods and manners, have never been more vividly and seductively portrayed.
  • Extract from : « The Riverside Bulletin, March, 1910 » by Anonymous

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