promiscuity

Example Sentences

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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 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

A cursory synopsis of Ira Sachs’s drama reveals the plot points that once haunted sanctimonious, homophobic novels and movies about gay life: promiscuity, addiction, lies, anomie — look at these poor people!

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2020

This same concern has been studied for the HPV vaccine, with the exact same finding: no increase in promiscuity postvaccination.

From Scientific American • Mar. 5, 2020

I hope at least to have cleared away the old errors, which connected mother-descent with uncertainty of paternity and an early period of promiscuity.

From The Position of Woman in Primitive Society A Study of the Matriarchy by Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)