... and another definition of "prostitute" as a verb is to "misuse one's talents or skills for money or unworthy ends"

The word derives from the Latin "prostitutus" = offered for sale.

Unfortunately "harlotry", the more accurate and less ambiguous term for the sexual context of "prostitution" has rather lapsed into desuetude.

Wipe your literary nose, Mrzzy - you can use the shorts of any passing lexicographer! (I think you mean "snob", don't you?)

Alan (The Merry Pedant)