whorish

• whoreish

whore +‎ -ish

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔɹɪʃ/

whorish (comparative more whorish, superlative most whorish)

1. (vulgar) Resembling or befitting a whore.

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

   • c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act IV, Scene 1,

     You, like a lecher, out of whorish loins

     Are pleased to breed out your inheritors:

   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Ezekiel 6:9,

     […] I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols […]

   • 1989, John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: William Morrow, Chapter 7, p. 327,

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

   Synonyms: hookerish, meretricious, sluttery, slutlike, sluttish, slutty, tartish, tarty, trampy, whorey, whorelike

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