(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.
Maudlin
Definition:
(a.) Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly.
(a.) Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness.
(n.) Alt. of Maudeline
Example Sentences:
(1) No, he says, he didn't get intimations of mortality, he didn't get maudlin, he didn't think about how he'd never work again.
(2) A key scene sees a puppet Kim Jong-il sing a maudlin number by that name.
(3) The first day (there is more in front of the Senate Thursday) was like an endless wake, which led to rambling meditation, many maudlin congratulations, thanks and eulogies from representatives who will, at most, regret losing the chance to whack their favorite economic piñata.
(4) Why am I suddenly maudlin about old photographs of tiny children in school uniform and haunted by memories of nursery teas and long afternoons in the park watching small boys chase a ball?
(5) The endless mawkish comparisons, wailing headlines and maudlin snippets.
(6) But his ability to abruptly switch tack and tone, into poetry or maudlin song, makes him a fascinating performer.
(7) But you listen to the music and it has this maudlin depression and beauty at the same time."
(8) Gilbert is against a kind of maudlin attachment to grief, which doesn't progress.
(9) I trust the confessional quality will be instructive and not taken as maudlin or pseudo-Proustian.
(10) But being focused on making plans, such as arranging my own funeral, has stopped me from becoming maudlin.
(11) After the shooting, the boys’ respective journals were found and while Dylan’s was full of maudlin and often nonsensical dreams about killing himself, Harris’s was full of violent and sadistic fantasies about hurting others.
(12) She is far from maudlin, having expressed a wish to be cremated in a vodka-bottle shaped coffin before having her ashes scattered on the island of Lindisfarne, off the north-east coast.