moll

Example Sentences

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Zhao Tao is electrifying as a mob moll who takes the fall for her boyfriend, serving five years on a gun charge, and then finding that everything in her life has changed upon her release.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2022

It recalls "Dick Tracy" too in the "mob moll," which is, on one level, a lot of what Catwoman is.

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2022

Everyone in the novel seems intent on wearing middle sister down, jamming her into a mold that makes more sense to the community—I.R.A. moll, adulterous hussy—than does a girl who reads while she walks.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 3, 2018

Instead, she took on tough characters: the singer and moll in Bugsy Malone; the mysterious loner in The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane.

From The Guardian • Jul. 13, 2018

A motion in the audience attracted me, as if some favourite performer were about to appear, and I heard the "gun- moll" whisper, "Loraine Keith."

From The Dream Doctor by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)