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woman of easy virtue
noun as in woman of the streets
Example Sentences
The find was known thereafter as The Red Lady of Paviland and Victorian minds assumed "she" had been a woman of easy virtue, buried far from polite society in a grave in a cave.
A female lawyer took up her case immediately afterward, but the court cast the blame on Mathura, calling her a woman of “easy virtue,” and the two police officers were released.
His comrade was delighted at being received by a woman of easy virtue, and above all at having a chat with an actor.
Eventually, because of the instrument's feminine shape, easy rider came to mean a woman of easy virtue or a man who prospered by her entrepreneurial activities.
"A great party," cried Viscount Hailsham on TV last week, "is not to be brought down by a woman of easy virtue!"
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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