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whore

[hawr] / hɔr /


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Italian actress and filmmaker Asia Argento writes in an essay that she has been called a whore, liar, traitor, opportunist and more since accusing Weinstein last year of sexually assaulting her in 1997.

From Washington Times Apr. 11, 2018

I was called a liar and a fame whore, despite the evidence I had and the fact that I never sought fame — I had turned over those texts with the promise of anonymity.

From Washington Post Mar. 28, 2018

About substance, I aim to be as honest as possible; about delivery I aim to be a media whore.

From Salon Mar. 19, 2017

That's very different from Rocket to the Moon which, in a secular equivalent to madonna or whore, features women as muse or monster.

From The Guardian Apr. 2, 2011

“Family! They’re the ones whore always gonna be there for you. You don’t ignore the family. They show their love. You take their love. You feel better. Capisce?”

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

“Maybe some of the fame whores, I don’t know,” said Dixon, a four-time IndyCar champion.

From Seattle Times May 25, 2017

“Among these unheroic transplants were roguish highwaymen, mean vagrants, Irish rebels, known whores, and an assortment of convicts shipped to the colonies for grand larcenies or other property crimes.”

From Washington Post Jun. 23, 2016

Kaling pooh-poohs the New Yorker, in which several of Novak’s stories appear; he replies in French, “We all must be whores for commerce, no?”

From Slate Feb. 2, 2016

Brett Ligon indicated that he plans to file a motion asking the judge to recuse himself after Case allegedly called the attorneys handling the case "media whores."

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 8, 2014

And so murderers, adulterers, thieves, whores, drunkards, idolaters, and all malefactors got protection under the Queen’s wings, under colour that they were of her religion.

From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume I (of 2) by Bell, Henry Glassford

And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after the Baalim, and made Baal-berith their god.

From Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature by Moulton, Richard Green

The words which follow in the verse—that all Israel went whoring after Gideon—are obviously an addition of the prophetic revision.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) by Duncker, Max

They will all, when they are boys, go whoring after strange gods, and they will become citizens—"fellow-citizens"—"illustrious fellow-citizens."

From Soldiers Three by Kipling, Rudyard

They will all, when they are boys, go whoring after strange gods, and they will become citizens—'fellow-citizens'—'illustrious fellow-citizens.'

From Indian Tales by Kipling, Rudyard

Sir 46:11 And concerning the judges, every one by name, whose heart went not a whoring, nor departed from the Lord, let their memory be blessed.

From Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha by Anonymous




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