whorish

American  

[hawr-ish, hohr-, hoor-] / ˈhɔr ɪʃ, ˈhoʊr-, ˈhʊər- /

adjective

1. having the character or characteristics of a whore; lewd; unchaste.

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Other Word Forms

• whorishly adverb
• whorishness noun

Etymology

Origin of whorish

First recorded in 1525–35; whore + -ish ¹

Example Sentences

Her venture into a local dance class ends with her father condemning the group’s painfully modest performance outfits as whorish.

From New York Times

Nestled between entries like “general whorish product placement” and “scenes of forced sentimentality to trick the audience into thinking the movie has a heart,” there was one that applied perfectly to the inherently problematic nature of his comedy – namely, “jokes at the expense of physical abnormality or ethnicity,” or as Bauman puts it, “jokes at the expense of people who are different.”

From Salon

To return to Manny Farber, he described it in 1969 as a “multisensory circus” and wrote that the experience, “a madness, 100 hours in a dark chamber, brings back a half-dozen vulgar, terrific, enervated images that are anything from piercingly poetic to whorish.”

From New York Times

Most of these projects are driven mainly by commerce, and an awful lot of them feel whorish, pointless and trite.

From Salon