Whoring

Definitions

Synonym of prostitution, having sex for money; (figurative) disgracing oneself for money; having promiscuous sex.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Scott... had told me at the Closerie des Lilas how he wrote what he thought were good stories, and which really were good stories for the Post⟳, and then changed them for submission, knowing exactly how he must make⟳ the twists that made them into salable magazine stories. I had been shocked at this and I said I thought it was whoring. He said it was whoring but that he had to do it...”

“Yet she increased her whorings, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land⟳ of Egypt and lusted after her paramours”

CEFR level