strumpet

Example Sentences

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O’Farrell said Hathaway has been portrayed as “an illiterate strumpet” because she was uneducated and eight years older than Shakespeare.

From Seattle Times

Nudge one wing ever so gently aside with a fingertip, though, and you’ll reveal hindwings patterned like colorful petticoats — often striped in brown and gold, reddish or orange, a peekaboo costume befitting the brashest strumpet.

From New York Times

Van Hove’s “Roman Tragedies” eliminates the first scene of “Antony and Cleopatra,” which includes a voluptuous embrace and depicts “the triple pillar of the world / transform’d into a strumpet’s fool.”

From The New Yorker

Nothing epitomizes this better than the firestorm of ire Degas ignited when he exhibited his sculpture, daring to place a lowlife and potential strumpet on a pedestal.

From Washington Post

The word bag itself is derogatory slang for an unfortunate-looking older woman—much like baggage, which according to the Oxford English Dictionary, has referred to a “worthless good-for-nothing woman” or “strumpet” since the 1600s.

From Time