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US
/ˈpɹoʊmɪskwəs, pɹɑˈmɪskjuəs/
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[ UK /pɹəmˈɪskjuːəs/ ]
[ UK /pɹəmˈɪskjuːəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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not selective of a single class or person
Clinton was criticized for his promiscuous solicitation of campaign money -
casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
he was told to avoid loose (or light) women
her easy virtue
wanton behavior
How To Use promiscuous In A Sentence
- Anyone who is sexually promiscuous is of increased risk of acquiring a sexually transmitted infection.
- Koinōnia idiōmatōn, — that communication of attributes in the person, whereby the properties of either nature are promiscuously spoken of the person of Christ, under what name soever, of God or man, he be spoken of, Acts xx. 28, iii. Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
- Many of the insanities start in this fashion; and all such practices, instead of being encouraged, should be discouraged; and all experienced and intelligent students of psychical research warn those who "dabble" in the subject against the repeated and promiscuous indulgence in such practices -- because of the dangerous, even disastrous, effects upon the mind, in many instances. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal
- A violent, promiscuous, out-of-control teen who hated her parents, truanted to have sex with boys and used threats to make other children do what she wanted. Disordered Minds
- She is perceived as vain, spoilt and promiscuous.
- Some few months after, at a show of gladiators, when men and women sat promiscuously in the theater, no distinct places being as yet appointed, there sat down by Sylla a beautiful woman of high birth, by name Valeria, daughter of Messala, and sister to The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
- We hear all kinds of things from underwire bras cause breast cancer, to promiscuous sex causes breast cancer, to, you know, if I use a hair relaxer, it will cause breast cancer. Komen Breast Cancer Charity Responds To Critics
- Promiscuously and indefatigable to pursue all sorts of pleasures I own to be brutish, and to avoid all with a suitable aversion equally blockish, let the mind then freely enjoy such pleasures as are agreeable to its nature and temper. Essays and Miscellanies
- Marriage, or any other form of promiscuous amoristic monogamy, is fatal to large States because it puts its ban on the deliberate breeding of man as a political animal. Maxims for Revolutionists
- The disease spread most rapidly in those populations that were most promiscuous and engaged in risky sexual activity.