moll
Example Sentences
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Then, like a gun moll, the Queen Mother orders a martini.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2023
Everyone in the novel seems intent on wearing middle sister down, jamming her into a mold that makes more sense to the community—I.R.A. moll, adulterous hussy—than does a girl who reads while she walks.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2018
Cut during Madonna’s most acute phase of Marilyn Monroe-stalking, the pop queen’s attempt at a mafia moll accent just ends up sounding like a demonic kewpie doll brought to life through the dark arts.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2018
Instead, she took on tough characters: the singer and moll in Bugsy Malone; the mysterious loner in The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2018
The B♭ in it was accordingly called a soft B or B molle, which is still the name in France for a flat, and moll in German still means minor, or “soft” or “lowered.”
From Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University by W. J. (Winton James) Baltzell
