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Jezebel/jezebel

the biblical story of Jezebel depicts a murdering, controlling, rapacious person who is primarily an amoral manipulator and only secondarily a woman. Instead of focusing on Jezebel's viciousness, the common connotation of a jezebel is to her sexuality (dictionaries define her as a shameless or abandoned woman) when in fact she did not use sex to carry out her evil deeds. Consider using instead evil influence, villain, murderer, bully, plotter, scourge of the human race, devil in human form/shape.


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