house of ill repute

noun phrase

: a business establishment where sex workers are available for hire : brothel

Examples of house of ill repute in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Once a house of ill repute, then a butcher shop, The Rookery has since been transformed into a seriously swish 33-room boutique hotel. — Zoey Goto, Travel + Leisure, 12 Mar. 2026

Immediately after the fact, Larry asked for her aunties’ blessing, then went out on the town to a house of ill repute with the boys, including the newly rich Jack Trotter. — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 21 July 2025

Arryk and Erryk find themselves in a house of ill repute where children as young as 10 are forced to grow their nails, file their teeth, and fight as drunken denizens cheer them on. — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 17 Oct. 2022

Company members lived in what’s commonly believed to be a former house of ill repute, sharing the building with the painter Stephen Quiller’s gallery in the early 1970s. — New York Times, 4 Aug. 2021

Rhymes for house of ill repute

• absolute
• arrowroot
• attribute
• bitterroot
• constitute
• convolute
• destitute
• disrepute
• dissolute
• execute
• institute
• involute