| 单词 | easy-virtued |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseasy-virtued easy-virtued adj. (of a woman) sexually promiscuous; (also more generally) possessing moral standards of little integrity; cf. of easy virtue at virtue n. Phrases 6. ΚΠ 1828 R. Taylor in Lion 17 Oct. 499 Jupiter himself went a larking, and not an easy-virtued lady in the land, wanted her Gabriel. 1853 Daily Free Democrat (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) 29 Oct. 2/2 Not being a dram-drinking, easy-virtued, unprincipled and unscrupulous politician.., Mr. Holton cannot be used as a cats-paw in the hands of scheming speculators. 1900 Era 24 Mar. 13/1 The easy-virtued lady's husband returns unexpectedly from South Africa, and threatens homicide with an elephant gun. 1947 R. W. Sellars Relig. Liberals Reply 172 I am..shocked in my intellectual conscience, by those easy-virtued controversialists..who attack humanism by saying that it is a form of Comtism. 1993 J. Cooper Araminta's Wedding xxxii. 130 Majorcan fisherman used to queue up on the quay in the fifties to welcome the loose-legged, easy virtued English typists. < as lemmas |
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