Sentence examples for whoreson from inspiring English sources
noun
An illegitimate child born of unwed parents.
- 1605, Though this knave came something saucily to the world before he was sent for, yet was his mother fair, there was good sport at his making, and the whoreson must be acknowledged. — William Shakespeare, King Lear I.i
Trump's a clay-brained guts, knotty-pated fool, whoreson obscene greasy tallow-catch, right?
The movie's underlying drama is Welles's identification with Falstaff, which comes comically to the fore each time another actor flings Shakespeare's epithet "whoreson" in Welles's face.
You are John Marston, a polite whoreson cowboy with virtuous instincts who has done bad things in the past.
You're too much for me, Ennis, you son of a whoreson bitch.
(This is what a French accent does to the Shakespearean epithet "whoreson").
It can mean a thickhead or blockhead, as in "Ah, you whoreson loggerhead, you were borne to do me shame", which occurs in Love's Labour Lost.
Coming to the end of the alphabet, I was reminded of the disguised Kent's insulting remarks to Oswald in King Lear: "Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter!" (Z was generally ignored in the dictionaries of the time).
to the verbose, "Thou clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou whoreson obscene greasy tallow-catch!".
Every day those poxy whoresons of mill men push into the forests and gain control over the land.
The whoresons prefer to sleep outside in storms, rather than in the comfort of a house.
We are back in the age of whoresons, mickle oaths and cleavage, and to remind us, virtually every character uses the word "phant'sy" to distraction (when we're in France, it's the occasional "pourquoi non?").
