fallen woman
Example Sentences
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Played as a maudlin admission that she’s a fallen woman, this scene would doom the play to a dusty footnote in O’Neill’s oeuvre.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025
Like Stephens’s play, it’s not exploitative — there is palpable care for the fallen woman — but feels unwarranted and unearned.
From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2023
Verdi's La Traviata will end the season, with Kramer directing Irish soprano Claudia Boyle in the role of "fallen woman" Violetta.
From BBC • Apr. 27, 2017
The contrasting Female Chorus, sung warmly by Kerriann Otaño, was a kind of fallen woman, a tough chick in a leather jacket.
From Washington Post • Jun. 12, 2016
Elizabeth thought that she must once have been very rich, and had lost her money; and she felt for her, as one fallen woman for another, a certain kinship.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
