harlot
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Throughout the years — an astonishing 22 of them — Ms. Abrera has checked off other characters in “Romeo and Juliet”: She’s played a harlot, Rosaline and Lady Capulet.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2018
In her book Mother Ireland, O’Brien described Ireland as “a woman, a womb, a cave, a cow, a Rosaleen, a sow, a bride, a harlot and of course, the gaunt Hag of Beare”.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 10, 2015
Words such as scold, shrew, termagent, witch, harlot, bawd, and tramp were all at one point in their histories terms for men; furthermore, the terms were usually neutral and sometimes even adulatory.
From Salon ● May 11, 2013
In the wake of feminism, and postmodern drama, it's not uncommon now to portray Carmen as more heroine than harlot.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2011
The sermon had meandered from the pious Susanna to Rahab, the harlot of Jericho.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
She could sum everything up, but instead, by all indications, Maxwell plans to tell the same old story of misunderstood glitterati beset by gold-digging harlots and press-hungry prosecutors.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2021
They also portray women who dump bad husbands positively, not as wicked harlots.
From Economist ● Sep. 14, 2016
There is no mention of Solomon deciding to which of the two harlots belongs the baby they both claimed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jesus sat at meat with publicans and sinners: he consorted with harlots.
From Time Magazine Archive
Love comes to harlots and to queens as well as to us ordinary women, and they suffer every whit as much as we do, perhaps more keenly on account of the hopeless positions they fill.
From The Hawk of Egypt by Conquest, Joan
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