(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."
Wench
Definition:
(n.) A young woman; a girl; a maiden.
(n.) A low, vicious young woman; a drab; a strumpet.
(n.) A colored woman; a negress.
(v. i.) To frequent the company of wenches, or women of ill fame.
Example Sentences:
(1) A two-part German-South African co-production based on the bestselling Kate Mosse novel, it's a window-rattling potboiler bubbling with ancient religious conspiracies, comely medieval wenches, comely 21st-century academics, fogbanks of swirly past-times skulduggery, evil pharmaceutical CEOs in 10 denier tights, priapic chevaliers and, verily, a script that does dance a merry jig upon the very phizog of credibility.
(2) And it seems to have a reverse Midas touch – or, according to the version of the myth related by Aristotle, a standard Midas touch (everything the king touched turned to gold, including his food, so he starved to death, apparently lacking the wit to engage a serving wench to spoonfeed him).
(3) It’s as if John Falstaff , having been rejected by the newly crowned Hal in Henry IV Part 2, had suddenly started screaming about having photos of Hal’s misbehaviour with the wenches in an Eastcheap tavern.
(4) Nor is it a place for sunshine, cheer, labradors bumbling amiably across sweeping lawns, toffs fumbling buffoonishly with fish knives, shots of bonneted wenches that don't involve unwanted pregnancy or crying, or apple-cheeked Windy Miller types snapping their braces and whistling merrily as they inflate the bouncy castle of Social History.
(5) Now, call me a heartless wench, but the story of a nerd stealing a vague computer idea from a pair of wealthy twins called Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, as Zuckerberg was accused of doing, doesn't strike me as having the same dramatic hook as, say, saving the planet from imminent destruction, or escaping from the Nazis.