It is a melancholy fact, in human experience, that the noblest gifts which men possess are constantly prostituted to other purposes than those for which they are designed.
To this end she is the prostituted "lady," with simpering words, and smiles, and glamour of refined deceit.
In the case of the National Geographic Society they have irretrievably prostituted their name; but the same is not true of other American authorities.
Gore, one of Mr. Peary's friends in the National Geographic Society, which prostituted its name for Peary by passing upon valueless "proofs.
Sir,--The language of gratitude has been so prostituted by servile adulation and designing flattery that I know not how to express myself when I would acknowledge receipt of your last letter.
During their stay, it is said, that members of the command prostituted a number of squaws and also seduced and betrayed several white women.
With respect to the drawing of the figures in this curious female coterie, Hogarth evidently intended several of them for beauties; and of vulgar, uneducated, prostituted beauty, he had a good idea.
That such was the view of this prostituted young man, may be fairly inferred from a glance at the object of his choice.
Then came the shameful surrender by Pilate, in which, from motives of policy, he prostituted Roman justice.
Pilate knew that he had prostituted his office in condemning Jesus, and he revenged himself for weak compliance by ill-timed mulishness.
Instead of giving yourself up for love you have prostituted yourself.
He denounced the preachers for their ignorant meddling in political affairs, and declared with great warmth that they had desecrated the pulpit and prostituted the sacred desk to the miserable and corrupting influence of party politics.
But trusting in thy beauty, thou playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and thou hast prostituted thyself to every passenger, to be his.
At every head of the way thou hast set up a sign of thy prostitution: and hast made thy beauty to be abominable: and hast prostituted thyself to every one that passed by, and hast multiplied thy fornications.
Lift up thy eyes on high: and see where thou hast not prostituted thyself: thou didst sit in the ways, waiting for them as a robber in the wilderness: and thou hast polluted the land with thy fornications, and with thy wickedness.
But it does not necessarily follow, because an institution is subject to abuse--because it is prostituted to vile purposes, that there is any thing wrong about the institution.
The same taste prevailed in Rome, under the Emperors, when genius was prostituted to the mean purposes of flattery.
But taste is corrupted by luxury; utility is forgotten in pleasure; genius is buried in dissipation, orprostituted to exalt and to damn contending factions, and to amuse the idle debauchees that surround a licentious stage.
When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
Daumier in his turn had to have his fling at the ministerial benches of the government of July--the "prostituted Chamber of 1834.
Public taste was sufficiently depraved already; but Gillray deliberatelyprostituted his genius to the level of a procurer, to debauch it further.
He prostituted his great influence for arbitrary and corrupt purposes.
The divine vengeance burst on this sycophantic courtier, who had always prostituted his conscience to his fortune.
I saw the guillotine, with the prostituted figure of Liberty presiding over it.
Indulgence in woman-scorning ribaldry inflicts due punishment upon talent itself, if it be prostituted to such miserable work.
THE malice of lust consists in the abuse of a natural, a quasi-divine faculty, which is prostituted to ignoble purposes foreign to the ends by the Creator established.
It is habitual with this passion to hide its hideousness under the disguise of love, and thus this most sacred and hallowed name is prostituted to signify that which is most vile and loathsome.
Shall his great office be prostitutedto the support of lawlessness?
This is a Poetry which would be understood with much less Capacity, and less Expence of Time, than what is taught by Writings; but the Use of it is generally perverted, and that admirable Skill prostituted to the basest and most unworthy Ends.
Enchanted by this prostituted Fair, Our Youth run headlong in the fatal Snare; In height of Rapture clasp unheeded Pains, And suck Pollution thro' their tingling Veins.
But I intended to give the Lecture of this Day upon the common and prostituted Behaviour of Traders in ordinary Commerce.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prostituted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: fallen; harlot; meretricious; prostitute; scarlet; whorish
