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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of prostitute.

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Examples

  • By degrees, all disturbers of the public peace, all offenders against justice met with their deserts; and as it is a query, whether on its first institution, any law from the bench was more honestly and impartially administered than this very Lynch law, which has now had its name prostituted by the most barbarous excesses and contemptuous violation of all law whatever.

    Diary in America, Series One Frederick Marryat 1820

  • Crawford-Browne said that when he told Manuel to his face that he had "prostituted" himself when he signed international loan agreements to fund the deal, his use of the word "was both accurate and appropriate".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • In the Citie of Pirato, there was an Edict or Statute, no lesse blameworthy (to speake uprightly) then most severe and cruell, which (without making any distinction) gave strict command; That everie Woman should be burned with fire, who husband found her in the acte of Adultery, with any secret or familiar friend, as one deserving to bee thus abandoned, like such as prostituted their bodies to publike sale or hire.

    The Decameron 2004

  • The Royal household have always had to "prostituted" themselves for the needs of British interests abroad.

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2010

  • For instance, referring to all sex workers as "prostituted" or

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • The new EC chairman refuses to recognise the Perak Speaker's request to call for two by-elections after two assemblymen "prostituted" themselves.

    Malaysia independent news 2009

  • The new EC chairman refuses to recognise the Perak Speaker's request to call for two by-elections after two assemblymen "prostituted" themselves.

    Malaysia independent news 2009

  • The new EC chairman refuses to recognise the Perak Speaker's request to call for two by-elections after two assemblymen "prostituted" themselves.

    Malaysia independent news 2009

  • The new EC chairman refuses to recognise the Perak Speaker's request to call for two by-elections after two assemblymen "prostituted" themselves.

    Planet Malaysia 2009

  • The new EC chairman refuses to recognise the Perak Speaker's request to call for two by-elections after two assemblymen "prostituted" themselves.

    Planet Malaysia 2009

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