Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Clownishness; buffoonery.
- noun Ribaldry; profligacy; profligate practice.
- noun The trade or practice of prostitution; habitual or customary lewdness.
- noun A name of contempt or opprobrium for a woman.
- noun False show; meretriciousness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Ribaldry; buffoonery; a ribald story.
- noun The trade or practice of prostitution; habitual or customary lewdness.
- noun Anything meretricious.
- noun obsolete A harlot; a strumpet; a baggage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The trade of a
harlot ;prostitution .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun offering sexual intercourse for pay
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Examples
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As for the charge of "harlotry," it is equally flawed.
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As for the charge of "harlotry," it is equally flawed.
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"hire" of her worshipping them; and they shall again become what they had been before, the hire of spiritual harlotry, that is, the prosperity of the foe, who also being worshippers of idols will ascribe the acquisition to their idols [Maurer].
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[W] hen God's love is primarily in view, our 'harlotry' is a meaningful description of our rejection of his love for the love of others. "
Herescope 2008
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Mr. Montille still totters around the village but he turned over the reins to his son Étienne more than a decade ago and the latter has made these wines much more accessible without, so far as I can tell, resorting to any technological harlotry.
The Childhood Chums Keeping Volnay a Delight Jay McInerney 2011
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This “援交 = = 賣淫 (正名行動) Compensated Dating = = harlotry” group currently has 181 members.
Global Voices in English » Hong Kong: “Compensated Dating” and the use of Pejoratives 2009
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Since when “compensated dating” has substituted “harlotry”?
Global Voices in English » Hong Kong: “Compensated Dating” and the use of Pejoratives 2009
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Plant taxonomy was given structure by the 18th century Swedish botanist Linnaeus: on the basis of their sexual organs (a system described by one critic as "loathsome harlotry"), every plant was assigned two Latin names – the first denoting its genus (or clan), the second denoting the species, often followed by the name or initial of the first person to "describe" it to science.
Kew Gardens: 'Plants are not just beautiful. They help us to survive' 2010
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I will command him: Go and marry a harlot and beget the children of harlotry, and then I will tell him to send her and her children away.
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"This degree reeks of the harlotry spirit shown by a teenage girl who is about to throw away her honor with a pervert," Mr. Terry declared.
Robert S. McElvaine: Bishops Upset at Obama/Notre Dame: Try Listening to Jesus 2009
ruzuzu commented on the word harlotry
"A harlot; a strumpet; a baggage."
--from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
March 5, 2018
bilby commented on the word harlotry
All this time I've been checking in suitcases at the airport when I could have been taking my harlot.
March 7, 2018