(n.) A house of lewdness or ill fame; a house frequented by prostitutes; a bawdyhouse.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is likely that many of the girls end up working in brothels, but due to the stigma of being a sex worker they will usually report they were forced into marriage.
(2) Some of them, pulled together for the manifesto, are silly, or doomed, or simply there for shock value - information points in the form of holograms of Dixon of Dock Green, the legalisation of soft drugs, official brothels opposite Westminster, complete with division bells.
(3) The law will decriminalise street sex workers, who will no longer be charged for soliciting, but it will still be illegal for two women to work together, or to run a brothel.
(4) I had no money and he threatened that I would end up in a brothel."
(5) A documentary about Femen, Ukraine Is Not a Brothel , premiered at a film festival in September, and revealed the involvement of a man behind some of the ideas for the groups protests.
(6) Historical revisionists – including Abe – have angered South Korea by undermining the widely accepted narrative of the “comfort women”: tens of thousands of mainly Asian women who were forced to work in Japanese military brothels in the 1930s and 40s.
(7) Brothels in the capital were ignored while others were being shut down an hour away in Glasgow.
(8) Meanwhile a report from New Zealand – where selling sex was decriminalised in 2003 – found the law had "little impact" on numbers, although some residents complain about a proliferation of explicit advertisements for brothels on local radio, and are opposing a 15-storey "super brothel" in Auckland.
(9) Tens of thousands of young women from regions devastated by the earthquake in Nepal are being targeted by human traffickers supplying a network of brothels across south Asia, campaigners in Kathmandu and affected areas say.
(10) The discovery of a 44% (44 out of 100) prevalence rate of HIV infection among female prostitutes working in brothels in Chiangmai in Thailand in June 1989, prompted this follow-up study in August to confirm the high prevalence rate and to look for risk factors for infection.
(11) Two girls returned after a year of exploitation in brothels in the Midlands.
(12) Beijing reacted angrily after the outspoken nationalist mayor of Osaka, Toru Hashimoto, said this week that Japan's forced recruitment of Asian women to work in military brothels before and during the second world war had been necessary to maintain discipline among soldiers .
(13) The chilling claim that we are all surrounded by an invisible peril was the prelude to evoking an evil that we had long thought was behind us, with May declaring: "It is walking our streets, supplying shops and supermarkets, working in fields, factories or nail bars, trapped in brothels or cowering behind the curtains in an ordinary street: slavery."
(14) A judge has ruled that a Soho brothel shut down by police earlier this month can reopen for business.
(15) Other neighbours have radically different approaches: in Germany, prostitution is legal and municipally regulated; in Spain, vast borderland brothels in places such as La Jonquera in Catalonia are frequented by French clients.
(16) The findings of this study prompted intensive health education programmes among prostitutes, their customers, and owners of brothels.
(17) Investigators would discover many girls and young women living under the control of men who forced them to work in brothels or who drove them around the city, sometimes to as many as 20 assignments a day.
(18) As far as I have understood one girl and one maid is not illegal, it's not a brothel."
(19) We recently had a client who was in domestic servitude, forced to work in a nail bar during the day and every evening taken to a brothel and exploited there all night.” Human traffickers may face life sentence under Britain's tough new slavery bill Read more Methods used to lure children from Vietnam to the UK are also becoming increasingly sophisticated, including use of social media.
(20) Two months later, Elm Guest House was raided by police and its owners, Haroon and Carole Kasir, were convicted at the Old Bailey of running a brothel.
Depraved
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Deprave
Example Sentences:
(1) For here we see the depravity to which man can sink, the barbarity that unfolds when we begin to see our fellow human beings as somehow less than us, less worthy of dignity and life; we see how evil can, for a moment in time, triumph when good people do nothing."
(2) The comments emerged in an article about last year’s Manchester Pride event, which was described in the Christian Soldiers newsletter as an “annual parade of depravity”.
(3) It’s a sign there is an utter ruthlessness and depravity about this movement which is hideous and sickening and deplorable.
(4) The charges range from second-degree assault, a misdemeanor, to second-degree “depraved-heart” murder.
(5) People have, of course, always committed depraved and evil acts, but simply to say “It has always happened” does not explain what is distinctive about contemporary terrorism.
(6) Shortly before 9pm on Wednesday, her voice cracking with emotion, the prime minister confirmed that what she called the “sick and depraved” attack had been carried out by a single assailant.
(7) The fighting has often slid into horror and depravity over the past 22 months.
(8) It is impossible to fully fathom the depravity and horror inflicted on innocent people by Nazi terror.” Trump later pledged in the statement “to do everything in my power throughout my presidency, and my life, to ensure that the forces of evil never again defeat the powers of good”.
(9) A hymn to the depravity of Edinburgh that balances the noble pursuance of art.
(10) "[Eady] in effect ruled that it is perfectly acceptable for the multimillionaire head of a multibillion sport that is followed by countless young people to pay five women £2,500 to take part in acts of unimaginable sexual depravity with him," he said.
(11) I used to be so scared when going out in the deserted fields in the dark, because I could be attacked any time by depraved criminals,” she said.
(12) The film could be said to mark the moment when the favela – previously a byword for criminality, sickness and moral depravity – started to become “chic”.
(13) After nearly a decade of supporting roles in mostly decent movies – you could also add to the list Up In The Air, Paul, Hancock, and State Of Play – Bateman has finally worked his way up to leading-man status – albeit as a straight-seeming guy who gets away with improbable and morally depraved acts.
(14) From the depraved dregs of humanity; the glorious blossoming of hope, a tangible act of togetherness; the salvation of pop.
(15) During this time 101 patients died (23.2%), with whom severeness of disease as well as the extent of social depravation could be identified as factors influencing mortality.
(16) "This is yet another example of the depraved behaviour of the Syrian regime, and why it must go.
(17) In contrast to premeditated homicide, a first-degree charge, depraved heart murder alleges the suspect actions were predicated by recklessness – and not caring about that recklessness – rather than intent.
(18) Bateman always comes across as the sanest, smartest, straightest guy in the movie even though his characters regularly commit acts of either moral depravity or wild improbability, or both.
(19) If the shooting down of the aeroplane was wild, reckless and tragic then the behaviour of the rebels in the aftermath has been depraved.
(20) As we’ve seen so tragically – from Brussels to Istanbul to Iraq, where Isil slaughtered children watching soccer – these depraved terrorists still have the ability to inflict horrific violence on the innocent, to the revulsion of the entire world,” he said.