whoring.
/hawr, hohr or, often, hoor/US // hɔr, hoʊr or, often, hʊər //UK // (hɔː) //
嫖娼,嫖妓,嫖客,嫖娼行为
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Definitions
n.noun · 名词
- 1.
- ›a person who engages in promiscuous sex for money; prostitute.
- ›Disparaging and Offensive. a person who is sexually promiscuous.
- ›a person who sacrifices personal principles or uses someone or something in a base or unworthy manner, usually for money: a greedy publicity whore.
v.verb · 无主动词
- 1.
whored, whor·ing.
- ›to act as a whore.
- ›to consort with whores.
- ›to seek after something that is base or unworthy: those who practice idolatry and whore after other gods.
v.verb · 有主动词
- 1.
whored, whor·ing.
- ›to put to a base or unworthy use: He’s whoring out his skills by writing for popular magazines.
- Obsolete. to make a whore of; corrupt; debauch.
Synonyms & Antonyms
as inprostitution
Examples
For pre-20th-century women, in particular, whoring and marriage could be described as the two default positions.
But this is the common fate of ill-gotten goods, that, as they came in by covetousness, they go out by whoring.
The profs spent their course-times whoring for Whuffie, leading the seminars like encounter groups instead of lectures.
It became plain that there would be no whoring or the like for me; I was far too proud and fastidious.
Taking to other deities is continually called whoring and adultery.
For the expression is used that all Israel went a whoring after the ephod.
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