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Cardi dialed up the goth glam with thin angled eyebrows and a vampy red lip and wore her inky black hair in voluminous curls.
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Starr Bowenbank, People.com, 4 Aug. 2025
By the halfway point, when the vampy, non-comic villainess Spider Lady (Carol Forman) takes over the narrative, the plot gets repetitive and the temptation to skip over the next few Saturday screenings becomes overpowering.
—Rory Doherty, Vulture, 11 July 2025
Plaid Dress Days and Nights Taylor Swift arrives to the 2024 MTV VMAs in Elmont, New York, on Sept. 11 in a vampy plaid look.
—Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2024
The film will follow the story of Valentín (Diego Luna) and Molina (Tonatiuh Elizarraraz), two inmates in an Argentinian prison who form a bond as Molina relays the plot of a glamorous Hollywood movie starring his favorite vampy diva, Ingrid Luna (Lopez).
—Stephen Daw, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
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Starr Bowenbank, People.com, 4 Aug. 2025
By the halfway point, when the vampy, non-comic villainess Spider Lady (Carol Forman) takes over the narrative, the plot gets repetitive and the temptation to skip over the next few Saturday screenings becomes overpowering.
—Rory Doherty, Vulture, 11 July 2025
Plaid Dress Days and Nights Taylor Swift arrives to the 2024 MTV VMAs in Elmont, New York, on Sept. 11 in a vampy plaid look.
—Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2024
The film will follow the story of Valentín (Diego Luna) and Molina (Tonatiuh Elizarraraz), two inmates in an Argentinian prison who form a bond as Molina relays the plot of a glamorous Hollywood movie starring his favorite vampy diva, Ingrid Luna (Lopez).
—Stephen Daw, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vampy
Adjective
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Convenience can be seductive, but in oncology, where the margin for error is minute, the cost of error, or incomplete or inaccurate information, is disastrous.—
Anna Forsythe,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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But the idealized construction speeds shown here do give a skewed view of urban development that can be seductive in its simplicity.—
Kyle Orland,
ArsTechnica,
17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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This fall, writer-director Bill Condon introduces a sultry new version of the embodiment of death in his take on Kander and Ebb's 1993 musical Kiss of the Spider Woman, itself based on a 1976 novel by Manuel Puig.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
Entertainment Weekly,
11 Sep. 2025
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The buttons stopped at her waist, creating a sultry thigh-high slit that allowed her leg to peek through.—
Catherine Santino,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Find transitional weather styles, like an off-the-shoulder midi that comes in a soft knit, as well as maxi dresses with alluring side slits and cinched waists.—
Nicol Natale,
PEOPLE,
12 Sep. 2025
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The plaque used the words magical, alluring, galvanizing and adventurous, and their initials spelled MAGA.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Vampy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vampy. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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