英语词汇“prostituted”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	prostituted
释义	prostituted, ppl. a.\|ˈprɒstɪtjuːtɪd\| [f. prec. vb. + -ed¹.] 1. Devoted to lewdness, esp. for hire, as a woman. 1565T. Stapleton Fortr. Faith 123 Make..of professed nonnes prostituted harlots.1678R. L'Estrange Seneca's Mor. ii. xviii. (1696) 279 Forced to Banish his Daughter Julia, for her Common, and Prostituted Impudence.1781Burke Sp. Marr. Act Repeal Bill Wks. X. 140, I should feel for a son who married a prostituted woman, or a daughter who married a dishonourable and prostituted man. 2. fig. Devoted to base or shameful purposes, esp. to infamous gain; degraded, debased, corrupted. Of persons (now rare) or things. 1579G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 63, I woulde..that all the ilfavorid copyes of my nowe prostituted devises were buried.a1659Osborn Wks. (1673) 284 A too prostituted Familiarity breeds contempt.1798Pennant Hindoostan II. 104 The encouragement which his prostituted Ministry had given to vices.1829Lytton Devereux i. i, That galaxy of prostituted genius of which Charles II was the centre.
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