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succubuslike

succubuslike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a succubus; wickedly seductive.

Adjective

succubuslike (comparative more succubuslike, superlative most succubuslike)

  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

Forms of succubuslike

comparativemore succubuslike
superlativemost succubuslike

Origin of succubuslike

From succubus + -like.

Questions about succubuslike

What does succubuslike mean?
Succubuslike means resembling or characteristic of a succubus; wickedly seductive.
What part of speech is succubuslike?
Succubuslike is an adjective.

Words near succubuslike in the dictionary

  1. succubitches
  2. succubous
  3. succubously
  4. succubus
  5. succubuses
  6. succubuslike
  7. succubustic
  8. succula
  9. succulae
  10. succulence
  11. succulences

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