unchaste

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On the other hand, each generation becomes more disinclined to work, and its vagrants multiply; each generation more prone to live by crime, more unchaste, and more quick to desert their conjugal partners and children.

From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin

A character in Plautus's comedy of The Merchant1182 complains of the difference in codes for unchaste husbands and unchaste wives.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham

Foul, unchaste and superfluous words have no place therein, nor have any inappropriate elements, elements void of significance and without virtue and life.

From Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by Lenker, John Nicholas

The celibacy of the clergy was only established with the very greatest difficulty, and when it was established, priests became unchaste.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Ellis, Havelock

Therefore, where polyandry is in the mores, women who comply with it are not unchaste.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham