The phrase "an easy virtue" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a quality or behavior that is easily obtained or practiced, often with a connotation of moral laxity.
Example: "In a world where temptations abound, some may view casual relationships as an easy virtue."
Alternatives: "a simple morality" or "a lax principle".
"I think a really good dinner party should consist of an archbishop, an authoress, a lady of easy virtue, a tycoon and a Powers model".
Earlier that year, however, during the Profumo scandal involving the Tory minister John Profumo and the call-girl Christine Keeler, Lord Hailsham had gone against the grain of many Britons by exclaiming on television that "a great party is not to be brought down because of a scandal by a woman of easy virtue and a proved liar".
Hailsham insisted that "a great party is not to be brought down because of a squalid affair between a woman of easy virtue and a proven liar".
One was a woman of easy virtue with a boyfriend who worked as an Elvis impersonator.
Whirling onstage, striking poses from come-hither odalisques to the Statue of Liberty, Ms. Hadad painted Mexico as a woman of easy virtue entertaining a callow gringo named Bush at a border brothel.
In between, we find a boxing picture ("The Ring"), a public school story ("Downhill"), a rural comedy ("The Farmer's Wife"), an adaptation of a Noël Coward society drama ("Easy Virtue"), a proto-screwball comedy centered on a ditsy heiress ("Champagne") and a stark, almost neorealist treatment of adultery in an isolated fishing village ("The Manxman").
*According to the glossary of the Kilmarnock Edition, dowie means "crazy and dull"; spairge "to spurt about like water or mire, to soil"; wooer-bab "the garter knotted below the knee with a couple of loops and ends"; ramfeezl'd "overspent"; breef "an invulnerable charm; limmer "a woman of easy virtue".
"They're prime fodder for the the middle-aged man who fancies a bit of rough with a lady of easy virtue".
You know she's a woman of easy virtue because McDonald stumbles around the stage in a bright red dress that practically falls off of her.
But there is a less sentimental conception of Venice's femininity: of a woman of easy virtue who clings on to many clients despite the ravages of time which are treated by means of shrewdly applied face lifts.
