What's the difference between brothel and wretch?

Brothel


Definition:

  • (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.

Wretch


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A miserable person; one profoundly unhappy.
  • (v. t.) One sunk in vice or degradation; a base, despicable person; a vile knave; as, a profligate wretch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Servicemen returning from their term of duty would land in San Diego and disappear into the hinterland rather than go home, finding refuge in drugs, alcohol or wretched anonymity.
  • (2) It was a wretched goal to concede and the unfortunate truth for Mignolet is that moment reminded us why many Liverpool supporters are perplexed he has been awarded a new five-year contract.
  • (3) We are Uncle Moneybags compared with the wretches who live in Ireland and the United States, where unemployment is higher than it is in Britain.
  • (4) Admittedly we've had the odd wretched experience – the long wait in casualty or for a bedpan, the horrid puréed dinners, the lost notes – but ultimately we've all been looked after, cured and called back for check-ups and therapies.
  • (5) Craig Gardner sent a header wide and had a strong claim for a penalty turned down, but West Brom were wretched, and Tony Pulis made two changes at half-time, Chris Brunt coming on for the injured Darren Fletcher, and Salomón Rondón joining the hitherto isolated Victor Anichebe up front after replacing Jonas Olsson.
  • (6) While Everton mourned Howard Kendall , the architect of two title-winning teams, Van Gaal illustrated the influence an elite manager can have as, from the ruins of a wretched performance in London, he fashioned a more pragmatic, more athletic side.
  • (7) Kathimerini has the details : Pulled up,,,for using derogatory language, Iliopoulos went further, condemning fellow MPs as "wretched sell-outs" and "goats".
  • (8) It had been a wretched semi-final until those moments when the players lined up in the centre circle for that last test of nerve and Holland should not just reflect on the inability of Ron Vlaar and Wesley Sneijder to beat the Argentina goalkeeper, Sergio Romero, but also the fact their entire team did not manage a single shot on target during the 120 minutes that preceded the shootout.
  • (9) The wretched miscreants that swamp Quinn, Sarkeesian and others with vile threats every time they post a video, a story or a tweet, have come to symbolise community.
  • (10) He is best remembered, however, for his four books: Black Skin, White Masks; Toward the African Revolution; A Dying Colonialism; and The Wretched of the Earth.
  • (11) He could take the most pitiful souls – his CV was populated almost exclusively by snivelling wretches, insufferable prigs, braggarts and outright bullies – and imbue each of them with a wrenching humanity.
  • (12) Updated at 10.18pm BST 10.15pm BST 58 min: Rather than play the ball to his team-mate Bernard, who was in a better position on the left-hand side of the penalty area, the wretched Fred shoots weakly from distance, straight at Neuer.
  • (13) What is clear is that 31-year-old Lynn led an "unimaginably wretched" life through illness which led her to attempt suicide, consider ending her days at Dignitas, the Swiss-based assisted suicide clinic, and sign a "living will" after saying she "feared degeneration and indignity far more than I fear death".
  • (14) Photograph: AAP In her famous 1913 pamphlet, Round about a pound a week , Maud Pember Reeves wrote contemptuously about “the gospel of porridge” – the idea, still common among the wealthy, that the destitute wouldn’t be so wretched if only they invested their money wisely.
  • (15) It’s a wretched character, and a truly hateful performance.
  • (16) So after six days of sustained assault by the world's fourth largest military power on one of its most wretched and overcrowded territories, at least 130 Palestinians had been killed, an estimated half of them civilians, along with five Israelis.
  • (17) Once again, though, wretched defending cost Celtic any chance of saving the match, let alone the tie.
  • (18) What does the phrase mean, apart from a wretched violation of the English language in a way that makes a good argument for corporal punishment?
  • (19) It's so full of the river, and the sense of the city, and a huge stretch of London society, and so grand in its vision that perhaps we forget how gloriously funny it is – the Boffins deciding to go in for history, and buying a big book ("His name is Decline-And-Fall-Off-The-Rooshan-Empire") or the captivating Lady Tippins ("You wretch!
  • (20) Williamson was not the only player sent off on a wretched day for the visitors, who also had Daryl Janmaat dismissed in the last minute for a second bookable offence.