whorishlyadv.
/ˈhɔːrᵻʃli/, U.S. /ˈhɔrᵻʃli/ In the manner of a whore; sinfully; wantonly, promiscuously.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [adverb]
follyc1225
unchastely1340
follilyc1400
whorishly1538
incontinently1552
uncontinently1565
lightlya1745
sluttishly1952
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [adverb] > in manner of prostitute
strumpetly1483
whorishly1538
strumpetly1615
strumpet-wise1653
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Meretricie, hoorishely.
1580 W. Fulke T. Stapleton & Martiall Confuted 202 Images which teach no goodnes, but being gorgeously & whorishly decked with golde & precious stones..they teach men vainly affected, to delight in such things.
1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Biijv Howe whorishlie Scriptures are alleaged by them, I will discouer..in another new worke.
a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) iv. 57 Are you so whorishly provided?
1768 J. Brown Sacred Tropol. ii. x. 224 Whatever love to, and connection with him [sc. Christ], they pretend; heartily they hate him... Never, O Jesus, permit me whorishly, and wickedly, to turn aside by their numerous flocks.
1899 E. Clayson Samson & Delilah 38 It often happens, when a virtuous man fights a divorce against a whorishly inclined wife, that the miscreant of a newspaper reporter will tell the public how pretty the applicant is.
1977 Listener 25 Aug. 246/3 The gratuitous violence, slotted whoreishly into the sequences.
2010 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 11 Nov. 14/1 His 1900 Salome, Second Version, where a whorishly luscious and bejeweled Salome examines the freshly chopped-off head of John the Baptist.
2014 @MacklenMak 15 May in twitter.com (13 June 2019) One of my best qualities is how whorishly I ‘like’ anybody's Facebook page that I'm asked to.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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