unchaste
Americanadjective
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not chaste; not virtuous; not pure.
an unchaste woman.
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characterized by sexual suggestiveness, transgression, or excess; lascivious; bawdy.
an unchaste exhibition.
Usage
What does unchaste mean? Unchaste is most commonly used to describe someone or something considered sexually immoral, especially according to the teachings of a certain religion. It can also be used in a more general way to mean morally impure. The opposite is chaste, which is most commonly used to describe someone who refrains from sexual activity that’s considered immoral. Example: When I went to Catholic high school, my religion teachers always emphasized the dangers of being unchaste.
Other Word Forms
- unchastely adverb
- unchasteness noun
- unchastity noun
Etymology
Origin of unchaste
Example Sentences
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It cannot be that the water makes men effeminate and unchaste, as it is said to do; for the spring is of remarkable clearness and excellent in flavour.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
For I tell you she hath so great a power of pleading that, being innocent, she will with difficulty be proved unchaste.'
From Privy Seal His Last Venture by Ford, Ford Madox
Quite passionless, but ever bounteous-minded even to waste; Much tenderness in talking; very urgent, yet no haste; And chastity—to laud it would have seem’d almost unchaste.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 by Various
Surprised by Iémon, O'Iwa is driven out as unchaste.
From The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) by De Benneville, James S. (James Seguin)
The spirits of slain men, unchaste women, and women who died in childbed were most dreaded.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Frazer, James George, Sir
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