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Whore


Definition:

  • (n.) A woman who practices unlawful sexual commerce with men, especially one who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a harlot.
  • (n.) To have unlawful sexual intercourse; to practice lewdness.
  • (n.) To worship false and impure gods.
  • (v. t.) To corrupt by lewd intercourse; to make a whore of; to debauch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The defiant Philippine leader has responded to critics with a string of outbursts, including labelling the US ambassador to Manila a “gay son of a whore” , telling the Catholic church “don’t fuck with me” , and accusing the UN of issuing “shitting” statements about his anti-drugs policies.
  • (2) Pro-Kiev activists later pelted the former banking tycoon with eggs, calling him "Putin's whore".
  • (3) Club leaders, who argue that a wife should serve as a "good sex worker" and a "whore" to her husband, showed the book to journalists last month in an effort to dispel what they called misconceptions that it was obscene and demeaning to women.
  • (4) In most languages, the most common sexist insults are "whore" or "slut", which makes women want to distance themselves from the stigma associated with those words, and from those who incarnate it.
  • (5) "We have run all sorts of scenarios internally, some quite dramatic ... you often lose the most money on a Devil's Whore or Red Riding," he added, before reiterating that the drama budget would not be affected.
  • (6) Ester Percivati, a young Turkish woman, recalled guards calling her a whore as she was marched to the toilet, where a woman officer forced her head down into the bowl and a male jeered "Nice arse!
  • (7) Here’s a sex freak father, hanging around with whores and massage parlors and swinging and all that,” he said, of the rumors that spread about him.
  • (8) In the end, I decided I didn't really want to embark on a new career as a tabloid hell-whore, and it wasn't until the Daily Mail carried a tame little diary item last autumn saying Max had a 'close companion' that he was semi-outed - although even then, it transpires, it was only because he granted his permission.
  • (9) Once I was out with friends and was asked “So will you be out whoring tonight?” Some people need educating.
  • (10) Rima, a Christian-Israeli Arab, has been branded a Roma, Romanian, "Jew whore" and "dirty Arab" by a family who have subjected her family to a slew of racist abuse and intimidation.
  • (11) "Come gentlemen," he said, "there is a little bit of the whore in all of us; name your price."
  • (12) Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has refused to apologise for calling the US ambassador “gay” and “the son of a whore” in remarks that sparked a diplomatic row.
  • (13) After Obama's re-election, Nugent said on Twitter: "Pimps whores & welfare brats & their soulless supporters have a president to destroy America."
  • (14) On the other side of the coin, the comforting notion that anti-Muslim bigotry is confined to a handful of click-seeking media whores does not hold.
  • (15) He also said the US ambassador was a gay “son of a whore”.
  • (16) Called "whores" and "sluts", husbands shun them and police and judges can re-rape them.
  • (17) When the French president tells a member of the public at the Paris agricultural fair who doesn't want to shake his hand to "sod off, you cretin," why shouldn't a French footballer call his coach a "filthy son of a whore"?
  • (18) You are a total cunt.” At the end of the episode before that, while Hannah jealously deletes Fran’s photos of his naked ex-girlfriends, she murmurs: “What are you smiling about, you little whore?
  • (19) All the world’s a brothel, and we’re all whores,” he yells between saccharine renditions of the national anthem.
  • (20) The single went mammoth, but she found herself hated in much of France: "Whore" was scrawled on walls near her home, and she was spat at in the street.

Whort


Definition:

  • (n.) The whortleberry, or bilberry. See Whortleberry (a).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Four boys with facial-digital-genital or Aarskog syndrome were whort with triangular faces, characteristic deformities of the hands and feet, and anomalies of the external genitalia.
  • (2) (iv) Many of the late RNA leader segments produced after infection with the mutants appear to be multiply spliced, i.e., instead of the major 200- to 205-nucleotide-long leader segment present in wild-type 16S mRNA, the RNAs produced by several of the deletion mutants have leaders with whort discontiguous segments.

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