mixed company
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.59 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""Imagine my one attempt at rational conversation last night. Asking his views on female emigration . . . ." "Perhaps the bearings of the question would hardly suit mixed company.""
- ""Took 'er home all right, did yuh?" he leered, as if they two were in possession of a huge joke of the kind which may not be told in mixed company."
- "Travel is enlivened not only by the mixed company of French, Berbers, Arabs, and descendants of the Mediterranean-Corsairs who sit together indiscriminately, but also by itinerant vendors of macaroons, sweetmeats and the like, who, as long as they have a travel ticket, ply their wares unhindered by the [ticket] collectors."
- ""Fifteen or 20 years ago, you couldn't even mention the word prostate in polite mixed company.""
- "Only a Cancer female can describe in mixed company a night spent with a lover and a double-sided dildo without a sniff of shame or irony."