have prostituted
- present perfect of prostitute.
Example Sentences
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Others have been as scurrilous, as libellous, as unfair; others have prostituted literary genius to the composition of paid lampoons; but some at least of them have been saved by the all-saving sense of humour.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George
He plundered the people, cheated the proprietors, and on all occasions seems to have prostituted his delegated power to purposes of private gain.
From The Witch of Salem or Credulity Run Mad by Carter, F. A. (Freeland A.)
They propose to except from this communion none but those who, be it in their own or be it in the other camp, have prostituted thought to the work of hatred.
From The Forerunners by Rolland, Romain
And here let me lament that two of the greatest men in our annals have prostituted their admirable pens, the one to blacken a great prince, the other to varnish a pitiful tyrant.
From Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third by Walpole, Horace
