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English
Etymology
From whore + -some.
Adjective
whoresome (comparative more whoresome, superlative most whoresome)
- Marked by whores, whorishness, or whoredom; characteristically whorelike
2005, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Suzanne Jill Levine, Infante's Inferno:[...] I had forgotten about Pepito with all that flesh around — and shouted for somebody called Mireya, a name which has remained in my ears as very whoresome.
2005, John Carter, Sex and Rockets:[...] of the welcome and preparation in the Name of Our Lady of the Night most gracious, to pure lewd and whoresome Lady BABALON.
2008, Dianne Castell, Hot and Bothered:“You lying whoresome bastard!”
2013, Kresley Cole, Poison Princess:“Eves, on the scale from wholesome to whoresome, you're practically Amish.” I glared.
2013, Philippa Carr, The Miracle at St. Bruno's:“Now,” he cried, “what does it feel like to know you're the son of this whoresome monk and the village harlot?” I watched Bruno's face. It was as white as the marble face of the jeweled Madonna. He did not speak.
- 2013?, Appleton Schneider, Blog Jam:
- But the vast population coexists in synthesis and even synergy. No more slaves, piles and ponds of horse- (and corpses of those worked to death) . . .nor even forced-windshield-washings . . . and Times Square, once whoresome, is not wholly wholesome!!
2015, Mark Todd, Western Weird:There ain't a woman alive who ain't carrying a desert in her, who ain't been made to feel she's got to keep it tucked away like a badland or whoresome wilderness. & this owl perched upon the saguaro's nettled shoulder ain't an omen, but a sister.