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.
The idea that because liberals are in favor of sexual liberty they must therefore believe that anyone even ought to be promiscuous is ridiculous. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Do ‘Family Values’ Weaken Families?”
Many of us secretly harbor a suspicion that somebody somewhere really is finding both fun and fulfillment while being sexually promiscuous.
I suppose I was quite promiscuous in my youth.
Do you regret not being sexually promiscuous in high school?
In the coming-of-age dramedy Whole New Thing, cowritten by and costarring out Canadian Daniel MacIvor, a precocious 13-year-old falls for his promiscuous gay teacher.
It may seem unfair to over-emphasize the voluptuary in Mr. Pepys, but it is Mr. Pepys, the promiscuous amourist; stringing his lute (God forgive him!) on a Sunday, that is the outstanding figure in the Diary. The Art of Letters
I was sickened by stereotypes of Indigenous women as promiscuous, drunken whores or sexless Mother Earth types.
And he explained her precarious situation too, that she was envied and spied on because her brother was fond of her and that many considered her tainted with her mother's promiscuousness and conniving, hoped to use that to make her father reject her. Ill Met By Moonlight
Why am I sure the Pope's reply will be couched in some stupid definition of "exacerbate" along the lines of "encourage promiscuous behaviour"? News from the House of Sticks -
Hence the virginal Elizabeth, who was chaste and civilised where her queenly predecessor was promiscuous and barbaric.
The foreign word " romance " has been taken into the Chinese language and means promiscuous sexual relations.
As a homosexual, I would also be disapproving of promiscuous, illicit bathroom romps, simply because of the moral code by which I live.
Full of self-loathing, she became self-destructive and promiscuous.
Unashamedly promiscuous, Slater's ambition dictates that a quick bonk can often be indispensable to an upwardly mobile career.
I've worked in institutions where 70 and 80 year old ladies have been incarcerated since they were in their teens because they were a bit promiscuous and society had labelled them deviants.
Such crimes would have deserved the animadversion of the magistrate; but in this promiscuous outrage, the innocent were confounded with the guilty, and Alexandria was impoverished by the loss of a wealthy and industrious colony.
If they are at room temperature rather than chilled; if they are unbruised, sweet and juicy; if they are promiscuously, gloriously bright; and if they are abundant, there is little else you need for a moment of pure summer joy.
RHIZOBIA: A. auriculiformis is a promiscuous host nodulated by a wide range of Rhizobium strains and has a good chance of being nodulated in soils with low Rhizobium populations (Roughley, 1987). Chapter 8
It is from the promiscuousness of all these breeds that has arisen our ordinary modern dog. Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891
She had lived a promiscuous life, been with many men, but his words were enough to satiate her hunger. Dreamseller: The Calling
Forgetting AIDS for the time being, syphilis, HPV, condyloma etc are extremely prevalent in promiscuous gays. The Volokh Conspiracy » Sinner Casts Stone:
Full of self-loathing, she became self-destructive and promiscuous.
crimping" - pins, the cold wait on the landing, the reluctant descent into a blotchy tin bath, and the effort to identify one's soap and nail-brush among the promiscuous Full Circle
‘White trash’ are characterized as indolent, lazy, promiscuous, ignorant and incapable of bettering themselves.
In the first place, then, her most copious and long hairs, being gradually intorted, and promiscuously scattered on her divine neck, were softly defluous. Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman.
The same promiscuousness, and yet more unprecedented, exists between the things of the intelligence and the facts of substance. Les Miserables
The term "paradigm shift" is bandied around with promiscuous ease. The Economist: Daily news and views
Instead, he chose to focus his question on the client's change to not being promiscuous.
It's like biology: an ecosystem where microbes are promiscuously swapping genes and traits, evolution speeds up.
It is called “The cup of blessing,’’ or “The cup of thanksgiving;” — the word eulogia is used promiscuously for Sacramental Discourses
Clinton was criticized for his promiscuous solicitation of campaign money
Musical styles jump promiscuously from jazz to cabaret to pop to world music, while songs are sung in English, Neapolitan, Italian, French and Spanish. WNYC New York Public Radio
Apparently that meant I was young, preppy-looking, and potentially very promiscuous.
In human terms, the bonobo is a promiscuous, bisexual swinger. Come Hither
As for the Bible, which children are usually employd in to exercise and improve their talent in reading, I think the promiscuous reading of it through by chapters as they lie in order, is so far from being of any advantage to children, either for the perfecting their reading, or principling their religion, that perhaps a worse could not be found. Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Sections 151-160
Its elegance lured virtuous men and women to mingle ‘promiscuously’ with the gamblers, prostitutes, and adulterers who still inhabited the night.
crimping" - pins, the cold wait on the landing, the reluctant descent into a blotchy tin bath, and the effort to identify one's soap and nail-brush among the promiscuous implements of ablution. Tales of Men and Ghosts
It's nice to know that deep down even German supermodels are still promiscuous whores.
But now, as to be silent of men's defects and vices is a piece of flattery, and flattery a degenerous and unworthy thing; yet, that all people may not promiscuously think themselves called upon to reprove and declare against whatsoever they see amiss in others, and so mistake that for charity and duty, which is indeed nothing else but sauciness and impertinence, it will be convenient to shew, Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
If the girl was deemed promiscuous, became pregnant, or could not keep a job, she could be returned to the reform school.
In 1953, the former Esquire magazine copywriter had launched Playboy, a magazine that, as Ms. Pitzulo describes it, championed as its ideal "a swinging single Lothario" who rejected marriage in favor of "self-indulgence, materialism and promiscuous bachelorhood. The Feminist Mystique of Hugh Hefner
Devout New England Puritans were not unusually promiscuous or intemperate.
At this promiscuous use of Col - lege & School interests the Society in Scotland took um - brage, and witheld their monies. Collections
The traits the character has accumulated since that point, however--aggression, ambition, promiscuousness, self-loathing--were predictable almost from the first moment of her introduction, and if Katee Sackhoff's not-inconsiderable charisma and talent were enough to give the character depth and appeal, they weren't up to the task of making Starbuck any less of a stereotype. This is Not the Post You're Looking For and Other "Maelstrom" Thoughts
The dispersal of the juveniles differs from that of most other promiscuous or polygynous mammals, being female-biased with a fraction of males remaining philopatric.
The foreign word " romance " has been taken into the Chinese language and means promiscuous sexual relations.
Some absolutely promiscuous butchers label various cuts of meat London broil, including flank steak, sirloin tip, top round, etc. The Big Apple
Inside the pearly white gates of the heaven in another world, promiscuous women teased men and had many boy friends at the same time.
One can be physically promiscuous without being emotionally unfaithful, flighty, or inconstant.
The reason I recommend this method is that, the birds being so valuable, the owners do not permit them to roost around promiscuously, they put them in a coop as strong as a fireproof safe and keep it in the kitchen at night.
I suppose I was quite promiscuous in my youth.
Encourage a culture of guilt tripping those who smoke, eat too much, engage in promiscuous sex, and other self destructive behaviors. Quack Remedy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
He displays a hedonism and love of the good life (as he sees it) that mirrors the promiscuous and hellraising lifestyle Liam had.
The only reason he turned her down is because this rumor got started that Christy was the most promiscuous girl at our school.
No one can say that implacable biology ordains failure, that gay social organization is fixed, promiscuous, and doomed.
I suppose I was quite promiscuous in my youth.
Hence the virginal Elizabeth, who was chaste and civilised where her queenly predecessor was promiscuous and barbaric.
To me, there seems something promiscuous about his geographical range: it looks as though he is looking for battles to fight.
+ The sensible rhetorick of the dead, to exemplarity of good life, first admitted to the bones of pious men and martyrs within church walls, which in succeeding ages crept into promiscuous practice: while Constantine was peculiarly favoured to be admitted into the church porch, and the first thus buried in England, was in the days of Cuthred. Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
Despite decades of education, homosexuals still tend to be promiscuous and to engage in high rates of high risk and often anonymous sex practices including fisting, torture, sodomy, coprophagy, vampirism, and other paraphilias that result in the exchange of blood, urine, feces, and semen yielding much higher rates of deadly disease than in the normal population. The "homosexualization" of the clergy in Latin America
Translate this promiscuous flamboyance into pottery and you have majolica, into theater and you have Palermo's life-sized puppet shows, into cuisine and you have… caponata.
It appeareth likewise that I have assigned to summary philosophy the common principles and axioms which are promiscuous and indifferent to several sciences; I have assigned unto it likewise the inquiry touching the operation or the relative and adventive characters of essences, as quantity, similitude, diversity, possibility, and the rest, with this distinction and provision; that they be handled as they have efficacy in nature, and not logically. The Advancement of Learning
It exploits the promiscuous aldolase activity of the enzyme macrophomate synthase (MPS) to add pyruvate enolate diastereoselectively to a wide range of structurally complex aldehydes. Naturejobs - All Jobs
There's a difference between being promiscuous and making serious strategic bets that may be the cause for regrets.
They are just encouraging children to be more promiscuous.
After many years of directing my own sexual education in Paris, I came to see myself as a ‘liberated woman,’ or what some perhaps would call a promiscuous adventurer.
My friend Rafael Sabatini, than whom no man living has dug deeper into Borgia history, explains the calumniation of Lucretia in this fashion: Adultery and promiscuous intercourse were the fashion in Rome at the time of Alexander VI. She Stands Accused
In 1953, the former Esquire magazine copywriter had launched Playboy, a magazine that, as Ms. Pitzulo describes it, championed as its ideal "a swinging single Lothario" who rejected marriage in favor of "self-indulgence, materialism and promiscuous bachelorhood. The Feminist Mystique of Hugh Hefner
The memoir displayed depression in a flighty, headstrong, energetic, sexually promiscuous young woman.
In some, the nebulous matter of which they are composed can be seen like masses of tufted flocculi, sometimes piled up, and at other times promiscuously scattered, resembling in appearance the foam on the crested billows of a surging ocean rendered suddenly motionless, or cirro-cumuli floating in The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
Many of us secretly harbor a suspicion that somebody somewhere really is finding both fun and fulfillment while being sexually promiscuous.
Some have attempted suicide; others have abused drugs or been sexually promiscuous.
Mr. Blank's festive chronicles of indigenous American subjects, whether the Cajun musicians he often celebrates or the sensual grins that light up the funkily feminist "Gap-Toothed Women," echo with a promiscuous, polyglot joy. Aliens, Operas and a Blank Slate of Documentaries
“What if you get AIDS?” she fretted, completely ignorant of or at least neglecting the fact that female-female copulation is virtually STD-transmission-free, fully focused on AIDS as “the gay disease” or, at the very least, “the promiscuous people’s disease,” and naturally since I am bisexual I’m also promiscuous, because all true bisexuals are. Musings. « Love | Peace | Ohana
Pack out really is worse than promiscuous.
I remember reading a statement she made in which she boasted of her promiscuousness. Think Progress » Coulter on Murtha: He Longs â€œTo See U.S. Troops Shot, Humiliated”
They never demean them in speech, watch vulgar or erotic shows, or associate with lustful or promiscuous women.
But her flirty demeanor, her "hey there, Sailor!" wink, as Richard Cohen says, and "all those doggones, references to her working-class status (net worth in excess of $2 million), promiscuous use of the word 'maverick,' repeated mentions of 'greed and corruption on Wall Street '... and, of course, that manic good cheer. Ann Handley: Sarah and Me: Junior High with Sarah Palin
If it is set to promiscuous mode, network interface controller (NIC) can incept all data packet to monitor.
Fantine was laid in the shade, among the first bones that came to hand; she was subjected to the promiscuousness of ashes. Les Miserables
The free market is a revolutionary, anti-family idea used to justify the legitimisation of abortion, drug use, pornography, sexual promiscuousness, every kind of personal irresponsibility including abandonment of marital responsibilities and even criminal behaviour. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
As the American houses have seduced corporate Britain, so companies have become more promiscuous in their search for intelligence.
It includes moral norms like anti-adultery, polygamy, orgies, pornography & promiscuousness. "So Kerry's ridiculous elitism, burbling out of him as if he lives, as I suspect, entirely on a diet of lentils and club soda..."
this young girl has to share a room with her mother who lives promiscuously
In these and hundreds of other cases he uses remorse almost as promiscuously as the adjective "awful" is now often popularly used where a much milder word would do, and in his employment of it in relation to his dead wife, it is his sense of profound and unavailing sorrow that he desires to convey by it or his despairing consciousness of his own unworthiness of the woman he had beatified. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
WILLENBRING: That's what we call a promiscuous molecule, because it's very small and it goes all over the brain and it affects multiple nerve systems. CNN Transcript Mar 28, 2006
There would be no donning of a black cap for a promiscuous fourteen-year-old.
she reads promiscuously
But her flirty demeanor, her "hey there, Sailor!" wink, as Richard Cohen says, and "all those doggones, references to her working-class status net worth in excess of $2 million, promiscuous use of the word 'maverick,' repeated mentions of 'greed and corruption on Wall Street' ... and, of course, that manic good cheer. Ann Handley: Sarah and Me: Junior High with Sarah Palin
Topics that had once appeared impossibly opaque to even the most determined of scholars now almost promiscuously invite inquiry and controversy.
When they don’t stick to the fact that our sexuality is designed for intimacy and potential baby-making between a man and his wife – and when they omit the various truths about extra-marital sex. when they condone homosexuality as a mere “difference” in sexuality and forget to tell how promiscuous and diseased is the lifestyle. The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause
I ask this because just as reiterating that being promiscuous is unhealthy is unnecessary to the conversation about someone stalking another for being promiscuous, it is unnecessary to reiterate that being fat is unhealthy when talking about someone stalking another on television. I want you to stop stalking "overweight" women. - Feministing
_grotesque_, or _promiscuously interspersed_; and the description here given leaves out the most beautiful kind of arabesque, namely, the inlaid work of geometrical figures in colored marbles, in which the The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860
Wherefore, knowledge and wisdom in things of this nature are distributed promiscuously among all sorts of persons, according to the foundation of their natural abilities, and a superstruction thereon in their diligent exercise, without any peculiar application to God for especial grace or assistance, reserving still a liberty unto the sovereignty of divine Providence in the disposal of all men and their concerns. Pneumatologia
Some have attempted suicide; others have abused drugs or been sexually promiscuous.
If I should write to you of all things which promiscuously forerun our ruin, I should over-charge my weak head and grieve your tender heart.
The blood and flesh of infants, at Thyestean banquets, was said to be their food and provision; promiscuous lust, with incest, their chiefest refreshment. The Sermons of John Owen
Still, you have reason to be hesitant if he's been promiscuous lately.
Fierce Panties: If running hipsters start making the pilgrimage to Oregon inorder to perfect the promiscuous Prefontaine moustache or shuffle in original waffle soled joggers, should it be called the HIJ hadj? Hell in a Handbasket: More Disturbing Signs
Being accompanied by the span-new silken affair with the golden head, which, as I have narrated _supra_, I was so lucky to obtain promiscuously after witnessing the Adelphi of the Westminster college boys, I naturally protested vehemently against such arbitrary and tyrannical regulations, urging the risk of my unprotected umbrella being feloniously abducted during unavoidable absence by some unprincipled and illegitimate claimant. Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
Convention delegates were beaten, stabbed, and shot promiscuously by the police.
A promiscuous woman is a loose woman. Note that in all three propositions, the reference is to sexual promiscuity.
It is in this way that what is known as libidinous blood is nursed as well among those who are strictly virtuous, in the ordinary meaning of the term, as among those who are promiscuous in their intercourse. Plain Facts for Old and Young
Although an unseasoned raw talent, her performance as a free-speaking, promiscuous teen was a memorable debut.
But in promiscuous company no prudent man will oppugn the merits of a contemporary in his own supposed department; contenting himself with praising in his turn those whom he deems excellent. Biographia Literaria
One can be physically promiscuous without being emotionally unfaithful, flighty, or inconstant.
Rather, their narratives suggest that they believe female role models who exhibit sexual agency have a status that protects them from being labeled as promiscuous.
The more promiscuous of the mob paled noticeably.
But I am continually struck by the perplexing question of why perception persists that primarily gay and bisexual men are termed 'promiscuous.' Abby L. Ferber: Schwarzenegger, DSK and Heterosexual Privilege
It's like biology: an ecosystem where microbes are promiscuously swapping genes and traits, evolution speeds up.
Gill Pratt, Jefferson; I'd hate to think that the nomination could come down to who's the most promiscuous pardon promiser. Your Right Hand Thief
Pack out really is worse than promiscuous.
What damages teenagers is an adult world which caricatures them as vain, promiscuous, stupid and venal.
Judson cautions that the term ‘promiscuous’ doesn't adequately describe the barn swallow's sexual behavior.
This sounds compelling and attractive but it can be promiscuous as well.
If I should write to you of all things which promiscuously forerune our ruine, I should over charge my weake head and greeve your tender hart; only this, I pray you prepare for evill tidings of us every day. Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts
But then a year ago he could still call up the horror of the communal plunge at his earlier lodgings: the listening for other bathers, the dodging of shrouded ladies in "crimping" - pins, the cold wait on the landing, the reluctant descent into a blotchy tin bath, and the effort to identify one's soap and nail-brush among the promiscuous implements of ablution. Full Circle
Ex-slaves were warned by bureau officials that “the loose ideas which have prevailed among you on this subject must cease,” and that “no race of mankind can be expected to become exalted in the scale of humanity, whose sexes, without any binding obligation, cohabit promiscuously together.” A Renegade History of the United States
Males need to be enterprising because female pseudoscorpions are remarkably promiscuous; in fact, if pregnant females have had fewer than three different mates, they are likely to abort their embryos.
His mind was working coldly, dispassionately, without rancor, but with contempt for the weakness and promiscuousness of his father. Tai-Pan
The meme that "gays are incredibly promiscuous" is a favorite of religious right spokespeople. Alvin McEwen: Glenn Beck's 'historian' uses bad information to denigrate gay community
So, not only are the students feckless, lazy, promiscuous and drunk, they're also liars.

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