noun
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a bastard
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a scoundrel; wretch
adjective
Etymology
Origin of whoreson
Example Sentences
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Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian Coming to the end of the alphabet, I was reminded of the disguised Kent's insulting remarks to Oswald in King Lear: "Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter!"
From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2012
Sir John Falstaff, fat rogue, globe of sinful continents, candle-mine, sweet beef, whoreson round man, is not a character who requires fleshing-out.
From Time Magazine Archive
He jocularly informs Buckley that his son John is a "great eater of your whoreson flapjacks."
From Time Magazine Archive
This apoplexy is, as I take it, a kind of lethargy, an 't please your lordship; a kind of sleeping in the blood, a whoreson tingling.
From King Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakespeare
I believe you I went to Richards’s—it was so whoreson a Night that I stopped there all the next day.
From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by John Keats
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