Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Clownishness; buffoonery.
- n. Ribaldry; profligacy; profligate practice.
- n. The trade or practice of prostitution; habitual or customary lewdness.
- n. A name of contempt or opprobrium for a woman.
- n. False show; meretriciousness.
Wiktionary
- n. The trade of a harlot; prostitution.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete Ribaldry; buffoonery; a ribald story.
- n. The trade or practice of prostitution; habitual or customary lewdness.
- n. Anything meretricious.
- n. obsolete A harlot; a strumpet; a baggage.
WordNet 3.0
- n. offering sexual intercourse for pay
Examples
“As for the charge of "harlotry," it is equally flawed.”
“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].”
“[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. ”
“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 Wall Street Journal: The Childhood Chums Keeping Volnay a Delight
“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
“Since when “compensated dating” has substituted “harlotry”?”
Global Voices in English » Hong Kong: “Compensated Dating” and the use of Pejoratives
“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.”
The Guardian: Kew Gardens: 'Plants are not just beautiful. They help us to survive'
“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.”
“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
“It's self-evident that what Bean and the Wall Street-funded Democrats are trying to do has nothing to do with the "public good" and everything to do with political harlotry -- The New Democrats, after all, have proven to be the Best Little Whorehouse in Washington and this just proves that truth.”
David Sirota: Floors Not Ceilings: Progressive Federalism, Not "States Rights"
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘harlotry’.
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If At First You Don't Succeed...
country, vestry, cabinetry, idolatry, entry, poultry, harlotry, banditry, pantry, sultry, conchyliometry, bathymetry
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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seventhspice's Words
supine, distaff, lest, janissary, articulator, chaos, scrumptious, charlatan, alacrity, papyrus, corollary, funicular and 106 more...
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Master
comprehensive
picaresque, carnivalesque, -esque, grotesque, Cocteau, necropolis, hypnopædic, mojito, imprimatur, insouciance, idyll, maestro and 239 more...
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vocab
words for everyday use
cantrip, inimical, sonorous, susurrous, equipollent, ribald, irreverent, maudlin, harlotry, arcane, locomote, nettlesome and 38 more...
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Euphony
words that I love the sound of
vervain, insipid, susurrous, corviform, gossamer, vicissitude, velveteen, viperine, myrrh, vesper, paragon, vespertine and 15 more...
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69 Across
From the February 2010 Harper's, which says, "From a 'blacklist' file included with the latest edition of Crossword Compiler, a British computer program for designing various word puzzles. The file...
zooerastia, whoremasterly, wee-wee, trollop, tribadistic, stiffy, spermary, smooching, shtup, sexy, sapphic, ruttish and 19 more...
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