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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All members of the different régimes seemed to be fraternizing in ironical promiscuousness here, and Vaudrey in a whisper drew Granet's attention to this.
From His Excellency the Minister by Henri Roberts
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
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
Episodes of that sort discourage sentiment; so does cold, hunger and discomfort incident on sardine-like promiscuousness.
From The Crimson Tide A Novel by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
