bawd

Example Sentences

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“The impudence of a bawd is modesty compared with that of a convert,” said George Savile, the first marquess of Halifax.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

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

Best of all is the wonderful, pivotal scene in which Tilly Tremayne's well-judged, shrewd widow takes on Harriet Walter's glittering bawd at chess.

From The Guardian • May 1, 2010

Dayton, Ohio; Miami, Fla. Kiss Me Kate, Cole Porter's musical melding of bard and bawd, with Marguerite Piazza as the tamed shrew.

From Time Magazine Archive

With each mouthful I swallowed six eyes, because those of the lover, the girl, and the bawd were fastened on what I was eating.

From The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes; his fortunes and misfortunes as told by himself by Rudder, Robert S.