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Slattern

A woman who is negligent of her dress or house; one who is not neat and nice.

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Bawd 76% connected

A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for a lewd purpose; a procurer or procuress; a lewd person; -- usually applied to a wom…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Cyprian 76% connected

Belonging to Cyprus.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Harlot 76% connected

A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Pig 76% connected

A piggin.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Prostitute 76% connected

To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Sloven 76% connected

A man or boy habitually negligent of neathess and order; -- the correlative term to slattern, or slut.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Tart 76% connected

Sharp to the taste; acid; sour; as, a tart apple.

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Whore 76% connected

A woman who practices unlawful sexual commerce with men, especially one who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a harlot.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Woman 76% connected

An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Slatternly 74% connected

Resembling a slattern; sluttish; negligent; dirty.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Slatternly 74% connected

Resembling a slattern; sluttish; negligent; dirty.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 4

Hooker 92% connected

One who, or that which, hooks.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Slut 92% connected

An untidy woman; a slattern.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Streetwalker 92% connected

A common prostitute who walks the streets to find customers.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Trollop 92% connected

A stroller; a loiterer; esp., an idle, untidy woman; a slattern; a slut; a whore.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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