disorderly house
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.15 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "But there was also about him an indescribable air which no mechanic could have acquired in the practice of his handicraft however dishonestly exercised: […] the air of moral nihilism common to keepers of gambling hells and disorderly houses […]."
- "Pekara, along with Officers Robert Margelewski and Roger O'Brien then ordered the theater lights turned on and began making arrests. Sixteen men were charged as inmates of a disorderly house and the cashier was arrested as the keeper of a disorderly house. The man from Elgin was arrested on charges of soliciting an act of prostitution."
- "Four years ago Cynthia Payne was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment for keeping a disorderly house. Madam Sin of Streatham gave the popular newspapers everything they had ever wished for – kinky sex, anonymous Top People, a police raid and, the most intriguing element of all, payment by Luncheon Voucher."
- "Her crime was less dramatic: she was found guilty of keeping a disorderly house by the Westminster magistrate Sir John Gonson […]."