whorely

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From whore +‎ -ly.

Adjective[edit]

whorely (comparative more whorely, superlative most whorely)

  1. (rare) Of, pertaining to, or befitting a whore; whorelike; whorish.
    • 2013, Martha Vicinus, Suffer and Be Still: Women in the Victorian Age - Page 168:
      [] the family spawned two kinds of women, the womanly woman and her negation, the whorely whore: the pure and the impure.
    • 2013, Daniel Arasse, Take a Closer Look - Page 81:
      So, since she had thrown away all her whorely jewels, she turned the umbilical cord into a necklace and wore it around her alabaster neck.

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