seductive

• seducive (obsolete)

From Latin sēduct-, past-participle stem of sēdūcere, +‎ -ive.

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /sɪˈdʌktɪv/　

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seductive (comparative more seductive, superlative most seductive)

1. Attractive, alluring, tempting.

   Evil is said to be seductive, which is one reason why people do what they know they shouldn't.

   • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

     The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it. […] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?

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