Jezebel
- noun
- /ˈdʒɛzəˌbɛl/
- Offensive
- They're making me out to be some kind of jezebel.
I will sue those lying Jezebels into the ground, the consecrated ground in which our brave soldiers now lie said.
- I will sue those lying Jezebels into the ground, the consecrated ground in which our brave soldiers now lie said.
Examples
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Cannon we ain't heard the last of these jezebels
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And today is just what's on Gawker or Jezebel and overdone and kind of perverted in some ways.
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They run before this jezebel of France like a foul air!
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I will sue those lying Jezebels into the ground, the consecrated ground in which our brave soldiers now lie said.
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Though why you persist in believing that red-haired jezebel, I'll never know.
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She's a godless jezebel.
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♪ Yeah, I know I shouldn't be complaining ♪ But these jezebels do my brain in
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I've exercised every ingenuity of which a man is capable to keep at bay the advances of this precocious jezebel.
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He referred to her as a jezebel because of her manipulative behavior.
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People called her a jezebel for her wicked schemes and lack of morals.
Synonyms
A cruel woman who treats people very badly
A woman who plays the bad person in a story
A woman people call immoral or who uses others to gain power
A woman who is very cruel to other people
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Jezebel as a common noun comes from that Bible story: people began to use her name to call a woman 'shameless', 'wicked', or 'scheming'.