Jezebel

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  • noun. A woman who is regarded as evil and scheming.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An impudent, violent, unscrupulous, vicious woman.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A bold, vicious woman; a termagant.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. wife of Ahab who was king of Israel; according to the Old Testament she was a cruel immoral queen who fostered the worship of Baal and tried to kill Elijah and other prophets of Israel (9th century BC)
  • noun. a shameless impudent scheming woman
  • Word Usage
    "Can't wait for Parker Posey and Lauren Ambrose in "jezebel.""
    Hypernym
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    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    termagant