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Whore

Noun CEFR B1 Frequent
hɔː

Definitions

  1. Synonym of prostitute: a person (especially a woman) who offers sexual services for payment.
  2. A person who is sexually promiscuous; a slut.
  3. A person who is unscrupulous, especially one who compromises their principles for gain.
  4. A person who will violate behavioral standards to achieve something desired.
  5. A contemptible person.

Equivalents

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Examples

The merciless Macdonaldworthy to be a rebel, for that the multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon himfrom the Western Isles of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied, and fortune on his damned quarrel smiling showed like a rebel's whore.”
“I come looking for a job But I get no offers Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue
“He cals her on a ſudden, all to naught; ſhe is a ſtrumpet, a light huswife, a bitch, an arrant whore.”
“So after he fucks the shit out of me, he tells me I'm lying about his whore not being Brad.”
You're smart. They're all whores.”
Dude: Since when did you become a political whore? Phil: I prefer the term political slut, thank you very much!”
Vidal is at once more detached and more preoccupied with his own view, celebrating an aristocracy of sensibility constantly thwarted and ignored by those mere whores after fame, the statesmen and politicians.”
“By that time, Tejeda had already been accused of beating his wife, abandoning his children, living in sin with another woman, being a whore for the insurance lobby, and accepting bribes.”
“a shameless hacksuch a whore for the moneythat he wouldn't even lend his name to his creations.”
“I don't want to be a media whore," says Babydol. "I don't need to 'sell' my record — it will sell because it's good or won't if it's not
“"Begone," Clare shouted. She could not bring herself to kill in cold blood. "Begone, or I'll shoot." "Idiot whore," he shouted back. "You would not dare."”
“I don't need that Lamont Cranston to tell me. Every Irishman knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men. We've known since the time of that rotten ould whore, Elizabeth the Bloody First!”
Saxon curses rang in her ears. Dane, they yelled, Viking whore. We will have revenge on you.”

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