Word Finder - prostitutes

definition

Any person (especially a woman) who has sexual intercourse or engages in other sexual activity for payment, especially as a means of livelihood.

synonyms

• sex worker

definition

A person who does, or offers to do, a demeaning or dishonourable activity for money or personal gain; someone who acts in a dishonourable way for personal advantage.

synonyms

• sellout

definition

To offer (oneself or someone else) for sexual activity in exchange for money.

definition

To sacrifice (oneself, one's talents etc.) in return for profit or other advantage; to exploit for base purposes.

It's not as if he visited the cribs and houses, looking for prostitutes! she said sternly.

He was taken from the Federal service in Washington to New York City by a reform mayor and put in charge of the police, because he had shown both physical and moral courage in fighting corruption of all sorts; and the New York police force at that time was thoroughly tainted with corruption, not in its rank and file, but among its superior officers, who used the power in their hands to extort money bribes chiefly from saloonkeepers, liquor-dealers, gamblers and prostitutes.

The Canaanite influence on the later organization of the Temple is clearly seen in the association of Temple prophets with the Temple priests under the control of the chief priest, which is often referred to by Jeremiah; even the viler ministers of sensual worship, the male and female prostitutes of the Phoenician temples, had found a place on Mt Zion and were only removed by Josiah's reformation.'

They were employed by the police in dealing with prostitutes, and on their authority lunatics were shut up in hospitals and sometimes in prisons.

These temple prostitutes are called gedeshim gedeshoth, i.e.

Both have worked hard to forge strong bonds with many of the prostitutes in the King's Cross area.

Within the temple of Artemis, the virgin goddess, there were ritualistic prostitutes.

Market Road is a lesser known hangout for... Market Road is a lesser known hangout for prostitutes.

Temple prostitutes were a common means of attracting precious metals for such pious hoarding, rather than trade.

It took considerable education to teach our judges that prostitutes deserved the full protection of the law against brutal pimps and sadistic johns.

Betty had originally lived in Cambridge where she was a noted procuress (meaning she was basically a pimp who employed prostitutes ).

The Ripper murdered five prostitutes within 10 weeks in the autumn of 1888.

One law passed in 1305 allowed the University of Oxford to arrest prostitutes attempting to ply their trade to students.

The Empire auditorium featured a famous promenade, where high-class prostitutes picked up their clients.

One of the most shaming and highly visible failures of this philosophy is the seemingly endless supply of teenage prostitutes of both sexes.

There is also a needle exchange that operates out of Base 75, a service offered to female prostitutes.

In a fateful moment, Manny takes Virgil to visit the local street prostitutes.

Conrad has recently been involved with surveillance at brothels where there are child prostitutes.

The city swarmed with Spanish adventurers, assassins, prostitutes and informers; murder and robbery were committed with impunity, heretics and Jews were admitted to the city on payment of bribes, and the pope himself shamelessly cast aside all show of decorum, living a purely secular and I.

A well described stocky bearded Irishman who was a regular with prostitutes was the last person seen with Emily Jackson.

Many of the pagan shrines featured temple prostitutes, with whom acts of fornication were deemed religious experiences.

Arbus' photos of transvestites, dwarves, giants, prostitutes and mental patients, in poses and settings that convey a disturbing humanity are still influential today.

Charlie Sheen vs. Emilio Estevez - The prostitutes Estevez had hired to kill his brother turned on him when he couldn't pay and ripped him apart.

The game, which teems with prostitutes and gangsters, has been cited as one of the most brutal games on the market; of course, it is also one of the most popular video games on the market.

This round features the Sex Workers Outreach Project USA, a group dedicated to the promotion of a safe working environment for sex workers, raising protest for the violent depictions of the rape and murder of prostitutes in GTA.

Prostitutes walk the sidewalks alongside many other citizens of the city.

And as with any other non-player character in Grand Theft Auto, the prostitutes may be killed.

Numerous studies show that gay and bisexual youth are at a higher risk of dropping out of school, of being kicked out of their homes, and becoming prostitutes, than their heterosexual peers.

With many professional prostitutes hidden amongst the ads on these sites - one has to play a very careful game when looking for that extra hot date.

The addict may spend money unwisely on dates, hotel rooms, prostitutes, or pornography.