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David Astle "She's a wild promiscuous good-time girl." Who, you ask. Never mind that: the real question is why. Specifically, why does the Oxford Dictionary have such a misogynistic reflex when it comes to sample sentences? These are the quotes that amplify a definition, showing how the word occurs in context.
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