wench

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Recent Examples of wench Was Gutenberg really in love with a wench named Helvetica, like in the show? Unlikely. Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2024 Maryland’s annual renaissance fair kicks off nine weekends of medieval celebrations, welcoming rogues, monks, maidens and wenches to step back to a time when owning a sword was cool. Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2023 There are many solid gags among this motley crew — the pirate forever chasing his false eye, the parrot trained to speak for its mute master, the series of fetching wenches who deliver slaps to Sparrow for past wrongs. Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 July 2023 Directed by this tired tacky wench. Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 25 Oct. 2022 See All Example Sentences for wench
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wench
Noun
  • Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday and Pat Garrett hang out with a hussy.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Either way, the woman comes out the other end a victim and a champion, but as a tramp and a hussy too.
    Benjy Hansen-Bundy, Glamour, 30 May 2018
Noun
  • The 1990s Father Ted comedy for the BBC centered on three misfit priests and their housekeepers on a remote Irish island.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The children's longtime nanny, Maria Turrion Borrallo, and housekeepers will likely stay in smaller properties nearby.
    Stephanie Petit, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Chastain portrayed Celia Foote in the drama based on Kathryn Stockett's novel of the same name about a white journalist chronicling the lives of Black maids working for white households in 1960s Mississippi.
    Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Ella Beaty will play Lizzie, while Rebecca Hall will play Lizzie’s stepmother, Abby, and Vicky Krieps will play Bridget Sullvan, a maid in the Borden household.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Survivor minx is a tired and true stereotype as attractive female contestants are often portrayed on the show as using their feminine wiles to get ahead in the game.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2021
Noun
  • No sirens were sounded, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said, adding that the incident was under review.
    Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Suddenly, in this endless stretch of sameness, a siren goes off.
    Carmen Maria Machado, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In other words, the insecure floozy stereotype has very little basis in reality.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Sonja is my favorite floozy and watching her mug around the house all wasted is one of my favorite things in the entire universe.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 29 June 2021
Noun
  • The only things shaky about Relish are the junkies, prostitutes, suicidal depressives, and sinners who populate Osborne's songs.
    EW Staff Published, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Serial killer Lorenzo Jerome Gilyard was convicted in 2007 for killing six women in Kansas City but is believed to have raped and strangled two girls and 11 women, most of whom had worked as prostitutes, from 1977 to 1993.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 7 Aug. 2025

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“Wench.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wench. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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