See whorish on Wiktionary
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"text": "Some pop singers try to compensate for lack of talent with whorish outfits and gyrations.",
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"text": "You, like a lecher, out of whorish loins / Are pleased to breed out your inheritors:",
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"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 6:9:",
"text": "[…] I am broken with their whorish heart which hath departed from me, and with their eyes which goe a whoring after their idoles: […].",
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"ref": "1989, John Irving, chapter 7, in A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: William Morrow, page 327:",
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"word": "sluttery"
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