whorish

comparative more whorish · superlative most whorish · alternative whoreish

1. vulgarResembling or befitting a whore.

   Some pop singers try to compensate for lack of talent with whorish outfits and gyrations.

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   You, like a lecher, out of whorish loins / Are pleased to breed out your inheritors:

   c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]

   […] I am broken with their whorish heart which hath departed from me, and with their eyes which goe a whoring after their idoles: […].

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 6:9

   […] Lish’s mother, the divorcee, was a beauty and a whorish flirt.

   1989, John Irving, chapter 7, in A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: William Morrow, page 327

   Vince, a natty 23-year-old financial analyst from Hoboken, made no bones about his agenda. "I love it here, it's so whorish," he said.

   2005 March 13, Denny Lee, quoting Vince, “Looking for Mr. Right Now”, in New York Times, retrieved 19 Nov 2016

   Synonyms: hookerish, meretricious, sluttery, slutlike, sluttish, slutty, tartish, tarty