Harlotry: alternatives and connections

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Harlotry

Ribaldry; buffoonery; a ribald story.

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Prostitute 74% connected

To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Prostitute 74% connected

To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Prostitution 92% connected

The act or practice of prostituting or offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness of a woman.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Whoredom 92% connected

The practice of unlawful intercourse with the other sex; fornication; lewdness.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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