as in hussies
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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Shakespeare shouldn’t feel intimidating—historically, his plays were loud and chaotic, with drunk spectators and prostitutes in the audience.—
Ben Croll,
Variety,
15 Jan. 2026 -
Epstein’s young victims were also threatened and followed; they were grilled by his lawyers and disbelieved by prosecutors, who at times treated them like prostitutes, instead of victims.—
Julie K. Brown,
Miami Herald,
18 Dec. 2025
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The answer became weather alert sirens, similar to what's already installed in Ellicott City, Maryland.—
Dennis Valera,
CBS News,
7 Jan. 2026
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You can still be cited for failing to yield to an emergency vehicle if an officer finds your use of headphones contributed to you missing the sirens.—
Shelby Slade,
AZCentral.com,
6 Jan. 2026
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Told in a lingua franca of philosophy and academic jargon, Lucky’s speech has something to do with the collapse of reason and logic, and the futility of human progress, which is ultimately what tramps Estragon (Reeves) and Vladimir (Winter) are up against, too.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
17 Dec. 2025
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Help, of course, isn’t coming—not over the Indian Ocean, not in the nursing home, not on the tramps’ moonlit road.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Jezebels.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Jezebels. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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