(n.) A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth.
(n.) A person given to low conduct; a rogue; a cheat; a rascal.
(n.) A woman who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a common woman; a strumpet.
(a.) Wanton; lewd; low; base.
(v. i.) To play the harlot; to practice lewdness.
Example Sentences:
(1) If sometimes these women seem more harridans or harlots than heroines, we might remember Anne Elliot in Persuasion: "Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story .
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A museum worker adjusts a contemporary corset by House of Harlot.
(3) In her book Mother Ireland , O’Brien described Ireland as “a woman, a womb, a cave, a cow, a Rosaleen, a sow, a bride, a harlot and of course, the gaunt Hag of Beare”.
(4) The exhibition, sponsored by Agent Provocateur, also includes nightgowns from the 1930s and a rubber corset from House of Harlot made for the exhibition.
(5) They're behaving like every harlot in history ," while senior Tories described Nick Clegg's "flirtation" with Labour as "sordid".
(6) Tony Wright, the national affairs editor of the Age newspaper in Melbourne, said: "If you'd hauled a semi-trailer load of fighting rum, a caravan of harlots and a boxing tent into a mining camp on payday, you'd hardly predict the level of crazed viciousness that has busted out in what's left of the heart of the Labor party."
(7) (Nick Clegg, since the earliest coalition negotiations, has been described by critics as a "harlot", a "flirt" and "arm candy".)
(8) Hogarth's 'Modern Moral History' paintings, such as "The Harlot's Progress" had proved very popular and had provided him with some measure of financial security and fame, but his ambition was to be a 'great art' painter--that is, a recognised painter of grand themes of an historical, religious or classical nature considered worthy and acceptable by the art critics--helping to place artists on a level with moral philosophers and epic poets in stature.
(9) Yet he was tempted by the freedom to pick his own repertoire without the day-to-day anxieties of running a theatre, telling the Guardian's Michael Billington: "I have power without responsibility, which has been the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages."