prostitute
Speech parts
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.
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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.
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).
Although Lorraine Peters is credited as her stand-in, Hardy claims he found a prostitute from Scotland to perform the dance.
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.
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.
Beneath his heroic facade, he is a violent psychopath, once strangling a prostitute to death.