promiscuity

Example Sentences

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

From New York Times • May 16, 2022

In each of these examples, the concern is ostensibly about promiscuity and irresponsibility, but is in fact a repudiation of women’s power and autonomy, Lomax explained.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 10, 2021

For one, remind those who say the HPV vaccine will increase promiscuity in teens that they were required to vaccinate their infants and children against hepatitis B, which is a sexually transmitted virus.

From Scientific American • Mar. 5, 2020

But what remains are his open eyes, his wry smile, a seeming promiscuity in thought and the sense of how blessed we were to be guided by one of the best poets of our time.

From The Guardian • Sep. 5, 2017

It is impossible to imagine how early savages, ex hypothesi promiscuous, saw anything to reform in their state of promiscuity.

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