promiscuity
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In Scorsese’s version, Bowden had been Cady’s defense attorney who, knowing Cady was guilty, had hidden evidence about the victim’s promiscuity to ensure a conviction and long sentence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
And in Venezuela, physicians say parents and governments also resist the vaccine due to cultural taboos and the false notion that girls will see it as a ticket to promiscuity.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
Written after a breakup with a boyfriend, its stylistic promiscuity mirrors his own journey to self-acceptance.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2022
These machines, called spectrum analysers, discovered a strange disturbance in the force, if you’ll pardon the franchise-reference promiscuity.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 27, 2020
Theories based on a supposed primal state of promiscuity certainly encounter, when explaining the social oganization of Australian savages, difficulties which they do not surmount.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
She held her little court in the crowd, upon the grass, playing her light over Jews and Gentiles, completely at ease in all promiscuities.
From Embarrassments by Henry James
