promiscuousness
- a word derived from promiscuous.
Example Sentences
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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
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 Hapgood, Isabel Florence
The theory is now confronted with the opposite danger, that of materialism, or moral promiscuousness.
From The Moral Economy by Perry, Ralph Barton
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 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 Forbes, Nevill
