Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state or character of being promiscuous.
- noun Promiscuous sexual behavior.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Promiscuousness; confusion; indiscriminate mixture.
- noun Promiscuous sexual union, as among some races of people.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Promiscuousness; confusion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
promiscuous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun indulging in promiscuous (casual and indiscriminate) sexual relations
Etymologies
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Examples
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Do you really think your poorly fictionalized "beat-inspired" memoir of misogyny and promiscuity is a. cool or b. remotely new and interesting?
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Do you really think your poorly fictionalized "beat-inspired" memoir of misogyny and promiscuity is a. cool or b. remotely new and interesting?
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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My point was to say that sexual promiscuity is rampant on college campuses even though every college student is at least sexually educated in the biological “just facts” way.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause 2010
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Regardless, the word ‘gay’ had an overall essence of promiscuity from the 1890s with the suggestion of immorality as far back as the early 1600s.
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Let's be honest, while promiscuity is not good in relationships, it's great for those looking for news and information.
Arianna Huffington: Journalism 2009: Desperate Metaphors, Desperate Revenue Models, And The Desperate Need For Better Journalism Arianna Huffington 2010
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The true ratio of male-to-female promiscuity is determined entirely by the ratio of females to males, which means that it is probably close to one.
My Favorite Example of a Biased Statistic, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Did they grow up in a neighborhood where promiscuity is considered repulsive?
Babbling Brooks 2007
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Boasting, showing-off and notches on the bedpost have always been the province of the male, and in particular a certain type of oaf who will go to great lengths to lie about bedding wenches while dismissing as trollops any wench whose promiscuity is rumoured to match his own.
New Reality TV Show – ‘Masturbation For Girls’ | Impact Lab 2006
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For instance, promiscuity is "natural"; the human animal, like many others, is quite easily inclined thereto.
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Unfortunately, the real issues aren’t so much the mechanics [50 plus rounds fired in promiscuity], but the social-political policies existing that allowed such event to occur.
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