[ US /sɪˈdəkʃən/ ]
[ UK /sɪdˈʌkʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. an act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone
  2. enticing someone astray from right behavior

How To Use seduction In A Sentence

  • In the tome, full of glamorous soft-focus pictures of the footballer, he waxes lyrical about the art of seduction, with fish his favourite weapon for luring girlfriends from the dining room to the boudoir.
  • This led to flirtatious, prolonged seductions and the delicious build-up of anticipation and desire.
  • Her methods of seduction are subtle.
  • He turned to me, his eyes glittering with a new seduction.
  • But if (to borrow language from the mint of Gorgias86), if only the attendants will bedew us with a frequent mizzle87 of small glasses, we shall not be violently driven on by wine to drunkenness, but with sweet seduction reach the goal of sportive levity. Symposium
  • Like the names of restaurant dishes here — "Creole cream-cheese cannoli with pistachios and satsuma sorbet" — the costumed performance feels like a seduction. New Orleans Done Over, Done Right
  • It is an old-fashioned, admirably reticent film that succeeds not through daring but by avoiding the seductions of sentimentality and melodrama.
  • Pizzetti is the artist who has rejected the volatile and ephemeral seductions of fashion and the servitude to others by preferring loyalty to himself.
  • The seduction of modafinil is that you can feel as peppy after six hours sleep as you would after nine. Boing Boing: March 2, 2003 - March 8, 2003 Archives
  • Here and there came a stream of warm light through an open door, and within, the Mongolians were gathered round the gambling-tables, playing fan-tan, or leaving the seductions of their favourite pastime, to glide soft-footed to the many cook-shops, where enticing-looking fowls and turkeys already cooked were awaiting purchasers. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
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