(1) Vogue editor, tastemaker, adventuress , she exploded with the style and joie de vivre that every gay man aspires to - or should.(2) Later, Lily would go to great lengths to provide proof that she was not an adventuress , and even wrote to her scornful father-in-law boasting of her capacity for hard graft.(3) It's instructive to see her as the aristocratic adventuress in the 18 th-century potboiler The Affair of the Necklace.(4) Not only that, she was a divorced American adventuress who had designs on the popular and charming Prince of Wales.(5) He manages to cheat the ‘betrayed’ wife, Marilyn, a conniving and cash-hungry adventuress , out of the fortune she had counted on.(6) He probably knew an adventuress when he saw one.(7) In 1871 an English adventuress named Lucy Walker became the first woman to summit the mountain.(8) Nana is a sexual adventuress who, by becoming the object of desire for men, seeks instead to become the subject of desire by exploiting the place in patriarchy assigned to her through the achievement of wealth and social influence.(9) It was hard to believe Lana had once thought of her as glamorous, even an adventuress .(10) This girl sounds like a cross between a sexual adventuress and a dog.(11) But, ‘Some five years ago, during a lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known adventuress Irene Adler’.(12) No question, she is indomitable, a chronic adventurer - adventuress , if you wish.(13) And the aristocrats who have scorned the adventuress are so scared by the rumour of Napoleon's victory they are prepared to give Becky virtually anything to secure their flight.(14) She exudes cool confidence as Gale, every inch a woman and adventuress , always ready with sharp claws and swift kicks to get her point across.(15) At least Prince Hektor always got what he wanted and the girl of his dreams fawned at his feet, despite her claims of being an independent, man-hating adventuress .(16) She was an adventuress , an impostor, a bigamist and a thief, and, as she used to pose as a noble lady from Germany, she was commonly called the ‘German Princess.’
