seductionistn.
One who practises seduction; one who practises or upholds corruption in public affairs.
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society > occupation and work > worker > worker according to manner of working > [noun] > corrupt or unscrupulous
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1817 J. Bentham Plan Parl. Reform Introd. 143 Bribe-offering, bribe-giving, seducer or seductionist, corruptor or corruptionist.
1818 J. Bentham Parl. Reform Catech. 61 The seductionist, by whose hand..the instrument of seduction most extensively and conspicuously employed, is that mostly known by the name of bribery, or corruption.
1884 Birmingham Weekly Post 15 Nov. 4/6 Cleveland [was depicted] as an ‘aristocratic seductionist’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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