adventureress
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "Again, if we have dangerovs^([sic]) men in the humblest ranks, we have adventureresses of late years in all ranks."
- "I’ll foil them though, the mean adventureresses!"
- "And now from Dayton we hear concerning the operations of a notorous^([sic]) adventureress and impostor hailing from this place, who has been repeatedly exposed. […] A letter addressed to Deacon ⸻ of that place, by a person who doubted the young woman’s story, brought the information, on Tuesday, that she is a wandering adventureress who is playing the paralysis dodge in order to make money."
- "It is said that there are 60,000 “adventureresses.” “Adventureress” means almost anything."
- "Some months ago, writes a Paris correspondent, a couple of adventureresses were arrested for having worked a matrimonial agency, which was in reality an effective machinery for decoying men on the lookout for rich wives."
- "It sticks to the novel closely and makes the heroine, “Lena Despard,” an adventureress of desperate wickedness."