unchaste

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The celibacy of the clergy was only established with the very greatest difficulty, and when it was established, priests became unchaste.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Ellis, Havelock

Woe to him who knows it, the chaste in wish and the unchaste in act, the rogue who values honour, the poltroon who would fain be brave!

From Despair's Last Journey by Murray, David Christie

There are expressions in Luther's writings—and in the Bible—that nowadays are considered unchaste, but are in themselves chaste and pure.

From Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by Dau, W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore)

No one who desires to become holier and better imagines that he does so by becoming more malevolent, or more untruthful, or more unchaste.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

He neither used unchaste words himself, nor permitted any one to do so in his house.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, October 1893 by Various