as in siren
a woman whom men find irresistibly attractive
an actress who was often cast as cynical, sexy femmes fatales
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Within a decade of Mahler’s death, Mahler-Werfel had acquired a reputation as a femme fatale, a sort of intellectual dominatrix.
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Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
Alice, Lost Highway Playing double duty as both Renee Madison and Alice Wakefield in 1997’s head-spinning Lost Highway, Patricia Arquette delivers a killer performance of another Lynch femme fatale with a twist.
—Liam Hess, Vogue, 17 Jan. 2025
One of her best sellers, the Na Me Cause Am t-shirt, features a Black woman femme fatale with an afro as the subject.
—Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 31 Oct. 2024
Hit Man ultimately is about Gary's romance with another potential paycheck (Adria Arjona), who has some of the enticingly dangerous appeal of a femme fatale out of a James M. Cain thriller.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
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Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
Alice, Lost Highway Playing double duty as both Renee Madison and Alice Wakefield in 1997’s head-spinning Lost Highway, Patricia Arquette delivers a killer performance of another Lynch femme fatale with a twist.
—Liam Hess, Vogue, 17 Jan. 2025
One of her best sellers, the Na Me Cause Am t-shirt, features a Black woman femme fatale with an afro as the subject.
—Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 31 Oct. 2024
Hit Man ultimately is about Gary's romance with another potential paycheck (Adria Arjona), who has some of the enticingly dangerous appeal of a femme fatale out of a James M. Cain thriller.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
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“Femme fatale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/femme%20fatale. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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