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.
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Etymology
Origin of unchaste
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at un- 1, chaste
Example Sentences
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Foul, unchaste and superfluous words have no place therein, nor have any inappropriate elements, elements void of significance and without virtue and life.
From Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by John Nicholas Lenker
On the other hand, each generation becomes more disinclined to work, and its vagrants multiply; each generation more prone to live by crime, more unchaste, and more quick to desert their conjugal partners and children.
From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed
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
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 Madox Ford
No one who desires to become holier and better imagines that he does so by becoming more malevolent, or more untruthful, or more unchaste.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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