harlotry n offering sexual intercourse for pay Usage(s) Shakespeare's narrative recounts the harlotry of love and the homosexuality of friendship, shows war grotesquely fumbled and honor traduced. I only did this because I felt that a debate on the subject of harlotry was not worthy of a presidential campaign. Otherwise it's just self-serving, thread-hijacking traffic-harlotry, if you get my meaning. Synonym(s) prostitution whoredom