All 4 Uses of
seduce
in
The God of Small Things
- At first Baby Kochamma tried to seduce Father Mulligan with weekly exhibitions of staged charity.†
Chpt 1 *seduce = persuade someone to want something (often sex or love) by tempting with something desired
- On weekdays she watched The Bold and the Beautiful and Santa Barbara, where brittle blondes with lipstick and hairstyles rigid with spray seduced androids and defended their sexual empires.†
Chpt 1seduced = persuaded someone to want something (often sex or love) by tempting with something desired
- (& Most Important) Astutely gauged the prevailing temper, and not just rejected, but rejected outright and extremely rudely, all of Baby Kochamma's advances and small seductions†
Chpt 9
- From the sensuousness of a woman with a baby at her breast into the seductive mischief of Krishna's smile.†
Chpt 12seductive = sexually attractive; or persuasive by tempting with something desired
Definitions:
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(1)
(seduce) to persuade someone to do something by tempting them with something pleasurable or desired -- often to make them want to have sex
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
The passive form, seduced can also mean to have won over as in "She was seduced into buying the house by the beautiful yard."