prostitute

Definition

  • noun: a person who has sex with someone in exchange for money
  • verb: to offer indiscriminately for sexual intercourse especially for money
  • verb: to use (something valuable, such as talent) in a way that is not appropriate or respectable and especially to earn money
  • synonyms: strumpet, harlot, mercenary

Examples

  • a writer who 'prostituted' his talents by writing commercials

  • a writer who 'prostituted himself' by writing commercials

  • She 'prostituted herself' for drug money.

Movie quotes

  • (..) Hint of a bosom. No? It's called scotoma. The mind sees what it chooses to see. Who is she? My dear, that's Mary Magdalene. The prostitute? She was no such thing. Smeared by the Church in Anno Domini, poor dear. Mary Magdalene was Jesus' wife. This is an old wives' tale. (..)
    2006 The Da Vinci Code