unchaste

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Quite passionless, but ever bounteous-minded even to waste; Much tenderness in talking; very urgent, yet no haste; And chastity—to laud it would have seem’d almost unchaste.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 by Various

Don John, enemy of Claudio, plans to thwart the marriage by letting it appear that Hero is unchaste.

From William Shakespeare by Masefield, John

Nothing unchaste or indelicate about her appearance; just a sort of want of restraint; a freedom that amounted to an utter lack of responsibility to the ordinary claims and dictates of propriety.

From Hoosier Mosaics by Thompson, Maurice

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, if her alien heart dotes on another, She is unchaste, were not that other Percy.

From Percy A Tragedy by More, Hannah