of easy virtue

As early as 2007, the Chicago-based curator and early supporter of environmental art Stephanie Smith cautioned that a glut of superficially righteous exhibitions could give hits of easy virtue to viewers and museums alike.

The Department of Justice had become known as the Department of Easy Virtue.

Nevertheless, her buxom good looks, twangy accent and trademark piles of auburn hair led to her being typecast as “happy hookers” and other dim but appealing women of easy virtue on stage and screen, including the 1973 films “Bang the Drum Slowly” starring Robert De Niro and “Scarecrow” with Gene Hackman and Al Pacino.

Now I have round-the-clock dealings with crooks, charlatans, con men and women of easy virtue.

Poor form also in his eschewing a cheap gag about Broad Street perhaps referring to the presence of ladies of easy virtue.”