disorderly house

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disorderly house

noun disorderly houses

  1. dated, euphemistic A brothel. 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 […].

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@misc{disorderly_house_2026,
  title = {disorderly house},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/disorderly%20house},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}