bawd

Example Sentences

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“The impudence of a bawd is modesty compared with that of a convert,” said George Savile, the first marquess of Halifax.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

Words such as scold, shrew, termagent, witch, harlot, bawd, and tramp were all at one point in their histories terms for men; furthermore, the terms were usually neutral and sometimes even adulatory.

From Salon • May 11, 2013

Best of all is the wonderful, pivotal scene in which Tilly Tremayne's well-judged, shrewd widow takes on Harriet Walter's glittering bawd at chess.

From The Guardian • May 1, 2010

In one of her better performances, Taylor makes Kate seem the ideal bawd of Avon�a creature of beauty with a voice shrieking howls and imprecations.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ah me! the magic that dissolves my health Is a rich suitor in my mistress' eye, Whom that vile bawd led to her door by stealth And opened it, and bade me pine and die.

From The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse by Williams, Theodore C.