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succubuslike en · ADJ

Etymology

From succubus + -like.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a succubus; wickedly seductive.
   • Unlike jokes and coincidences, the stereotype is an inveterate boundary crosser; it returns, succubuslike, at times of crisis or shifts of perspective, in literary history. 1995, Marshall Brown, The uses of literary history, page 184:
   • They included “Malice,” “The Serpent and the Rainbow” and ‘The Last Seduction,” in which a succubuslike Linda Fiorentino steals Mr. Pullman’s drug money. 2009 June 28, John Anderson, “His Weird Side: That’s Where the Fun Is”, in New York Times:

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