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prostitute

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1. prostitute - Noun

2. prostitute - Adjective

3. prostitute - Verb

Meaning

To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire.

To devote to base or unworthy purposes; to give up to low or indiscriminate use; as, to prostitute talents; to prostitute official powers.

Openly given up to lewdness; devoted to base or infamous purposes.

A woman giver to indiscriminate lewdness; a strumpet; a harlot.

A base hireling; a mercenary; one who offers himself to infamous employments for hire.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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About that time, Sonia suffered a miscarriage — an event Sutcliffe cynically alluded to, on at least one occasion, when explaining to a prostitute why he had sought her services. Source: Internet

A good way to continue supporting bands without making them feel like a prostitute from the 1900s is buying their music from outlets like or the band’s themselves (if they offer such a service). Source: Internet

Although Lorraine Peters is credited as her stand-in, Hardy claims he found a prostitute from Scotland to perform the dance. Source: Internet

After extensively studying him I mulled on whether the tagline should be The News Pimp or The News Prostitute though both are relevant I finally settled on prostitute for its sound. Source: Internet

Another time, while sleeping in an inn, a prostitute was introduced naked beside him, and he saved his chastity by running.sfn Many miracles were attributed to his intercession. Source: Internet

Beneath his heroic facade, he is a violent psychopath, once strangling a prostitute to death. Source: Internet

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