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  • noun Plural form of whoremonger.

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Examples

  • Sorry I was including stuff like this: “Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge” (Hebrews 13: 4).

    Think Progress » Gays Are More Dangerous Than Guns In Florida 2010

  • The mayor of London and its aldermen complain incessantly that because they have no authority there, Southwark, the Clink, and Paris Gardens—to name the most colorful neighborhoods—are riotous places given over to masterless men, thieves, whoremongers, and the like.

    Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011

  • The mayor of London and its aldermen complain incessantly that because they have no authority there, Southwark, the Clink, and Paris Gardens—to name the most colorful neighborhoods—are riotous places given over to masterless men, thieves, whoremongers, and the like.

    Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011

  • Most famous of course is the classic heavy duty "fire and brimstone" text from Revelations: "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death."

    Old English gods and myths: Hell Carla 2009

  • Revelation 21: 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

    Election Central Morning Roundup 2009

  • That sounds like the whoremongers of the GOP to me.

    Minnesota Republicans Attack Franken For Dirty Jokes 2009

  • Where are the Russian spies, the society whoremongers, the russian oligarchs, the Corfu taverns?

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • Maybe Vitter is stubborn as hell and will hold on but I doubt his colleagues like Susan Collins who are running for reelection in Maine want to be associated with a caucus that welcomes whoremongers with open arms.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • Meanwhile, it's the law of the land, and one gets tired of the whoremongers, adulterers and so-called preachers talking about abortion in between homosexual liaisons or whatever drugs they are snorting these days in motel rooms.

    Why I Voted For Obama 2009

  • Where are the Russian spies, the society whoremongers, the russian oligarchs, the Corfu taverns?

    Not a patch on our scandals 2009

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