strumpet

Example Sentences

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O’Farrell said Hathaway has been portrayed as “an illiterate strumpet” because she was uneducated and eight years older than Shakespeare.

From Seattle Times

Nudge one wing ever so gently aside with a fingertip, though, and you’ll reveal hindwings patterned like colorful petticoats — often striped in brown and gold, reddish or orange, a peekaboo costume befitting the brashest strumpet.

From New York Times

Nor is she the sorceress and strumpet Shakespeare depicts in “Henry VI, Part 1” or the romantic lass in petticoats Mark Twain imagines in his final novel, “Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc.”

From New York Times

Wehner recently gave an interview to the Washington Post in which he tried to signal the Trump camp that Ryan is not just some cheap ideological strumpet – he cares about conservative ideals.

From Salon

Misogynistic Trump might be pleased to learn that a trumpery can sometimes be a strumpet.

From Salon