jezebel
IPA: jɪzˈɛbʌɫ
Root Word: Jezebel
noun
- (biblical) The Phoenician princess and Queen of Ancient Israel who appears in the Old Testament (1 Kings & 2 Kings). She incited heresy and lured the Jews away from their God and back to idols.
- (derogatory) A woman who is evil, scheming, shameless, or immoral.
- Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Delias.
- Alternative letter-case form of Jezebel [(biblical) The Phoenician princess and Queen of Ancient Israel who appears in the Old Testament (1 Kings & 2 Kings). She incited heresy and lured the Jews away from their God and back to idols.]
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Examples of "jezebel" in Sentences
- It might be so for the Jezebel thing.
- The title refers to the biblical women Jezebel.
- They have a one year old daughter called Jezebel.
- Jezebel, however, plots a method for acquiring the land.
- Can't wait for Parker Posey and Lauren Ambrose in "jezebel."
- This was Elijah's first encounter with Jezebel, and not the last.
- In particular, Jezebel has come to be associated with promiscuity.
- Only for her to discover he'd been sleeping with daughter Jezebel.
- Jezebel arranges for Naboth to be falsely accused and stoned to death.
- Neither of you apparently care about a balanced article on Gene Loves Jezebel.
- Hi, hope I don't come across as blunt here but I would dump your "jezebel" like a hot potato if it were me, brother!
- He can be involved, apologize and still go to the grammy's but Janet is the "black whore", "jezebel", etc who is oversexed and must be stopped!
- Yet this February, jezebel.com – which has tallied the model count at shows for several years – reported the whitest New York fashion week since 2008.
- Of course the picture on the cover of the book just had to be that of a black woman. that's the only way we can truly recognize the severity of the "jezebel" issue
- Dodai Stewart of jezebel.com, who has written about the lack of diversity among models, does not expect to see an Asian model on the cover of Vogue's all-powerful US edition any time soon.
- I know that, as “flash fiction” has gotten more popular, there is a backlash, saying that the writing is annoyingly “clever;” recently a “6 Word Memoirs” compilation was published, and jezebel. com derided it.