Harlotize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Harlotize is a verb meaning (intransitive) To act like a harlot.
Meaning
(intransitive) To act like a harlot.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To turn into a harlot; to prostitute.
Example Sentences
"Then that's what you are!" I shrieked. “You're a devilwoman harlot who is trying to harlotize and demonize the time-tested and decent practice of fighting that every decent..."
[…] Yeat too too forcible I feare to be forgot of some, / For slaunder set on foote, though false, is talkatiuely dome. / Malicious (for thy malice is thy matter all in all) / Is it to harlotize, thinkst thou, a Goddesse wrong too small, / But thou must forge it from the Earth, euen from the Sheep-cote? Nay, […]
It is no extraordinary paradox, That a man may himſelf debauch his own wife, and a woman harlotize with her own huſband.—But this ſubject muſt be touched with great nicety; therefore I ſhall only add, that even our moſt unobſerved behaviour ſhall carry with it ſuch a ſpirit of refinement, as to prevent that vulgar and libidinous degeneracy, which will infallibly blunt the edge of our joys, and in the end pall our reliſh.
Word Forms
- harlotizes
- harlotizing
- harlotized
- harlotise
Synonyms for harlotize
Depending on context, synonyms include blissom, chamber, colt, gill, harlot, minx.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include whore, hook, hooliganize, drab, carouse, pimp.
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