Example Sentences

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The theory is now confronted with the opposite danger, that of materialism, or moral promiscuousness.

From The Moral Economy by Perry, Ralph Barton

To a young girl accustomed to the quiet and exclusiveness of private life, the noise and promiscuousness of a public hotel corridor were singularly distasteful.

From Bought and Paid For From the Play of George Broadhurst by Broadhurst, George Howells

Fathers, mothers, children, brothers, sisters, men, women, daughters, adhere and become incorporated, almost like a mineral formation, in that dusky promiscuousness of sexes, relationships, ages, infamies, and innocences.

From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

On terra firma, he would never again have approached these men; but life on a transatlantic liner, with its inevitable promiscuousness, obliges forgetfulness.

From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster

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 Roberts, Henri