promiscuity

Example Sentences

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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

These letters, for all their promiscuity and turbulence, are a hymn to stability.

From New York Times • May 16, 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

Pirrauru is no more a survival of and a proof of primitive promiscuity, than is the legalized incest of ancient Egypt or ancient Peru.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various