succubuslike

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

succubus +‎ -like

Adjective[edit]

succubuslike (comparative more succubuslike, superlative most succubuslike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a succubus; wickedly seductive.
    • 1995, Marshall Brown, The uses of literary history, page 184:
      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.
    • 2009 June 28, John Anderson, “His Weird Side: That’s Where the Fun Is”, in New York Times[1]:
      They included “Malice,” “The Serpent and the Rainbow” and ‘The Last Seduction,” in which a succubuslike Linda Fiorentino steals Mr. Pullman’s drug money.