chaste

Jesus is widely thought to have never married and to have lived a chaste life.

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

He called it “an excellent example of the Midcentury Modern style,” noting its Googie-style sign, “simple geometric volumes, low sloped roof, relatively chaste exterior walls and decorative concrete blocks.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025

K-dramas are famously chaste, which is part of their global appeal.

From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2023

Still, these were details ABC might have accounted for before constructing the sensitive, chaste gentleman fantasy that made everyone weak in the knees.

From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2023

His hair was smoothed to perfection, his canvas shoes a chaste white, and he looked sporty in his linen knickers, his belted coat with a boutonniere of Queen Anne’s Lace, and his ribbed, knee-length hose.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

"Unmatcht for beauty, chaster than the ayre," wrote one poet.

From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by Anne MacDonell

But it remained for the chaster genius of Addison to banish this painful topic from his elegant pages.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli

If those are to be delineated at all—and, with a view to their amendment, surely they may—the task could hardly be executed with a chaster and less offensive pencil.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various

And my chaster imperial love, what were you too but earthliness?

From Majesty A Novel by Louis Couperus

Her bosom is love's paradise,      There is no heav'n but in her eyes;      She's chaster than the turtle-dove,      And fairer than the queen of love:      Yet all perfections do combine      To beautifie my Valentine.

From The Lucasta Poems by Richard Lovelace

For decades Bollywood produced the chastest of films: boy met girl, but there were no kisses, hips only thrust during dance numbers, and the audience knew that romance would be followed by marriage.

From Time Magazine Archive

Evil tongues do not spare even the chastest and most admirable souls.

From The Carlovingian Coins Or The Daughters of Charlemagne. A Tale of the Ninth Century by Eugène Sue

He was of all comedians the chastest and closest observer of nature.

From The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield by Edward Robins

The chastest constancy will I ever preserve to thy image.

From History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

The inside of the domes are very beautifully enamelled in the chastest colours, and with most excellent taste, and would put to shame the most handsome drawing-room in London, I should think.

From Campaign of the Indus by T.W.E. Holdsworth