Adventuress Definition

ăd-vĕnchər-ĭs
noun
A woman who seeks social and financial advancement by unscrupulous means.
American Heritage
A woman adventurer, specif. one who seeks to become rich and socially accepted by exploiting her charms, by scheming, etc.
Webster's New World

A female adventurer; a woman who seeks adventure.

Wiktionary

A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character who pursues personal advancement, especially by sexual means; a demirep.

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Noun

Singular:
adventuress
Plural:
adventuresses

Origin of Adventuress

Adventuress Sentence Examples

  • But the long expected heir failed to come, and Bianca realized that if her husband were to die before her she was lost, for his family, especially his brother Cardinal Ferdinand, hated her bitterly, as an adventuress and interloper.

  • The ignorant British Press treated Mrs. Hayden as a common American adventuress.

  • This adventuress soon gained the greatest ascendancy over the cardinal, with whom she had intimate relations.

  • This was the beginning of a pretended correspondence between Rohan and the queen, the adventuress duly returning replies to Rohan's notes, which she affirmed to come from the queen.

  • The adventuress, having taken refuge abroad, published Memoires in which she accused the queen.

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