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Recent Examples of sexpot
However, when Abby turns out to be a sexpot who distracts the men on staff — everyone from John Lutz’s Lutz to Alec Baldwin’s Jack Donaghy — Liz attempts to set her straight.
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Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Sep. 2024
The glamorous sexpot would be inhabited by a new character, Seema.
—Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
Women don’t really get much to do, except as sexpots, moms, typists and drunks; in the film’s cumbrous final act, Emily Blunt’s Kitty Oppenheimer is relegated to fuming over who shakes her husband’s hand.
—Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2023
Niagara rocketed Monroe to superstardom, codifying her sexpot image as enshrined in reviews that compared her figure in her tight dresses to the beauties of Niagara Falls.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2022
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Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Sep. 2024
The glamorous sexpot would be inhabited by a new character, Seema.
—Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
Women don’t really get much to do, except as sexpots, moms, typists and drunks; in the film’s cumbrous final act, Emily Blunt’s Kitty Oppenheimer is relegated to fuming over who shakes her husband’s hand.
—Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2023
Niagara rocketed Monroe to superstardom, codifying her sexpot image as enshrined in reviews that compared her figure in her tight dresses to the beauties of Niagara Falls.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sexpot
Noun
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Stoker’s Frankensteined creation was born from the history of the Anglo-literary vampire that begins with Polidori’s Ruthven, the first aristocratic, Byronesque and demonic seducer.—
Robert Eggers,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Each of them gave a masterful performance—Chalamet a loud blend of comedy and anxiety; Jordan playing twins, one a live-wire charmer and the other more smoldering.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
13 Mar. 2026
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Named our South’s Best City on the Rise in 2024, this coastal charmer has only continued to get better each year since.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
12 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Dumas’ sinister seductress Milady is now a British spy helping the Nazis.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
11 Mar. 2026
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Once again, a defense lawyer attempted to paint the women as lying, scheming seductresses.—
S. C. Cornell,
New Yorker,
5 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The press demonized her as a temptress, a scandalous two-time divorcee trying to topple the monarchy.—
Bailey Bujnosek,
InStyle,
24 Jan. 2026
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Despite not speaking English, Bardot landed her first lead role as a temptress in a 1955 British comedy called Doctor at Sea.—
The Week US,
TheWeek,
14 Jan. 2026
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“Sexpot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sexpot. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.
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