moll
Example Sentences
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Harley Quinn, before her great emancipation, was the ultimate gangster moll existing at and for the pleasure of The Joker.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2024
Zhao Tao is electrifying as a mob moll who takes the fall for her boyfriend, serving five years on a gun charge, and then finding that everything in her life has changed upon her release.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2022
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
What follows are a series of fairly contrived dilemmas, as Ali abruptly makes an effort to be a mom, not a moll.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 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
