promiscuous
adjective
characterized by or involving indiscriminate mingling or association, especially having sexual relations with a number of partners on a casual basis.
promiscuousness
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a word derived from
promiscuous.
Example Sentences
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The country groaned under the resultant taxation and the promiscuousness of the tribute exacted till, in 1572, John the Terrible ascended the Moldavian throne.
From The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey by Nevill Forbes
It is from the promiscuousness of all these breeds that has arisen our ordinary modern dog.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 by Various
The theory is now confronted with the opposite danger, that of materialism, or moral promiscuousness.
From The Moral Economy by Ralph Barton Perry
Fantine was laid in the shade, among the first bones that came to hand; she was subjected to the promiscuousness of ashes.
From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood
When the waters appear men, women, children, dogs, bipeds, quadrupeds, bathe together in tumultuous promiscuousness, of which I can give no idea, nor recommend as an example.
From The Adventures of a Special Correspondent by Jules Verne
