What's the difference between harlot and whore?

Harlot


Definition:

  • (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."

Whore


Definition:

  • (n.) A woman who practices unlawful sexual commerce with men, especially one who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a harlot.
  • (n.) To have unlawful sexual intercourse; to practice lewdness.
  • (n.) To worship false and impure gods.
  • (v. t.) To corrupt by lewd intercourse; to make a whore of; to debauch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The defiant Philippine leader has responded to critics with a string of outbursts, including labelling the US ambassador to Manila a “gay son of a whore” , telling the Catholic church “don’t fuck with me” , and accusing the UN of issuing “shitting” statements about his anti-drugs policies.
  • (2) Pro-Kiev activists later pelted the former banking tycoon with eggs, calling him "Putin's whore".
  • (3) Club leaders, who argue that a wife should serve as a "good sex worker" and a "whore" to her husband, showed the book to journalists last month in an effort to dispel what they called misconceptions that it was obscene and demeaning to women.
  • (4) In most languages, the most common sexist insults are "whore" or "slut", which makes women want to distance themselves from the stigma associated with those words, and from those who incarnate it.
  • (5) "We have run all sorts of scenarios internally, some quite dramatic ... you often lose the most money on a Devil's Whore or Red Riding," he added, before reiterating that the drama budget would not be affected.
  • (6) Ester Percivati, a young Turkish woman, recalled guards calling her a whore as she was marched to the toilet, where a woman officer forced her head down into the bowl and a male jeered "Nice arse!
  • (7) Here’s a sex freak father, hanging around with whores and massage parlors and swinging and all that,” he said, of the rumors that spread about him.
  • (8) In the end, I decided I didn't really want to embark on a new career as a tabloid hell-whore, and it wasn't until the Daily Mail carried a tame little diary item last autumn saying Max had a 'close companion' that he was semi-outed - although even then, it transpires, it was only because he granted his permission.
  • (9) Once I was out with friends and was asked “So will you be out whoring tonight?” Some people need educating.
  • (10) Rima, a Christian-Israeli Arab, has been branded a Roma, Romanian, "Jew whore" and "dirty Arab" by a family who have subjected her family to a slew of racist abuse and intimidation.
  • (11) "Come gentlemen," he said, "there is a little bit of the whore in all of us; name your price."
  • (12) Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has refused to apologise for calling the US ambassador “gay” and “the son of a whore” in remarks that sparked a diplomatic row.
  • (13) After Obama's re-election, Nugent said on Twitter: "Pimps whores & welfare brats & their soulless supporters have a president to destroy America."
  • (14) On the other side of the coin, the comforting notion that anti-Muslim bigotry is confined to a handful of click-seeking media whores does not hold.
  • (15) He also said the US ambassador was a gay “son of a whore”.
  • (16) Called "whores" and "sluts", husbands shun them and police and judges can re-rape them.
  • (17) When the French president tells a member of the public at the Paris agricultural fair who doesn't want to shake his hand to "sod off, you cretin," why shouldn't a French footballer call his coach a "filthy son of a whore"?
  • (18) You are a total cunt.” At the end of the episode before that, while Hannah jealously deletes Fran’s photos of his naked ex-girlfriends, she murmurs: “What are you smiling about, you little whore?
  • (19) All the world’s a brothel, and we’re all whores,” he yells between saccharine renditions of the national anthem.
  • (20) The single went mammoth, but she found herself hated in much of France: "Whore" was scrawled on walls near her home, and she was spat at in the street.