fallen woman
Example Sentences
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And in an era where women were forced into gendered stereotypes – housewife, temptress, fallen woman, mixed-up girl – she satirised and sent up those roles, playing them to the hilt while emphasising her strength.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Played as a maudlin admission that she’s a fallen woman, this scene would doom the play to a dusty footnote in O’Neill’s oeuvre.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025
Like Stephens’s play, it’s not exploitative — there is palpable care for the fallen woman — but feels unwarranted and unearned.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2023
The contrasting Female Chorus, sung warmly by Kerriann Otaño, was a kind of fallen woman, a tough chick in a leather jacket.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 12, 2016
Elizabeth thought that she must once have been very rich, and had lost her money; and she felt for her, as one fallen woman for another, a certain kinship.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
