whore

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Despite his rising popularity in the cinema, Kilmer did not abandon the stage, playing Hamlet at the 1988 Colorado Shakespeare Festival, and then Giovanni in a New York production of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2025

Right away, we were stunned into silence by an enormous altarpiece teeming with skeletons, angels, the Whore of Babylon on her seven-headed steed.

From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2022

Scott Raab, the author of the anti–LeBron James manifesto The Whore of Akron, was later critical of those reporters who chose not to speak up about West’s locker room blowup.

From Slate • Jun. 4, 2014

Nicholas Shaw, who was recently seen in 'Tis Pity She's A Whore at the Liverpool Everyman, plays the young prince full of promise in Conrad Nelson's revival, which transposes the action to 1949.

From The Guardian • Feb. 26, 2011

Shakespeare's "universal sympathy"—to quote Coleridge—did not include the plainly-clad tub-thumper who dared to accuse him to his face of serving the Babylonish Whore.

From The Man Shakespeare by Harris, Frank