as in hussy
a boldly flirtatious or sexually promiscuous woman as far as the family matriarch was concerned, her son's fiancée was a gold digger and a Jezebel

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Noun
  • Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday and Pat Garrett hang out with a hussy.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday and Pat Garrett hang out with a hussy.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2021
Noun
  • Days after the deal between the U.S. and the Houthis — and despite a two-day Israeli assault on Houthi targets — a missile from Yemen again set off air raid sirens in Israel.
    Tia Goldenberg, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2025
  • Maui’s top emergency management official at the time, Herman Andaya, was also criticized for his failure to use outdoor air sirens to alert the public.
    Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • At some point, Perkins reportedly introduced Millard to a Black prostitute but Millard wanted a White one instead, the news report said, citing warrants.
    Louis Casiano, Fox News, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, named after Shields’s controversial first film about a young girl who was a child prostitute, features interviews from her childhood friend and actress Laura Linney and Drew Barrymore and how to contrasted with Shields’s experience in the spotlight.
    Vulture, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2023
Noun
  • In this raucous odyssey a wanton minx quests hard across a dreamy landscape of smut, filth and psychics, hustling to lift a curse that has been f*cking her sh*t up.
    Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2025
  • In this raucous odyssey a wanton minx quests hard across a dreamy landscape of smut, filth and psychics, hustling to lift a curse that has been f*cking her sh*t up.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In other words, the insecure floozy stereotype has very little basis in reality.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Oh, my favorite floozy.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 11 May 2021
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“Jezebel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Jezebel. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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