chaste
Example Sentences
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Jesus is widely thought to have never married and to have lived a chaste life.
From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026
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
And he’ll do it with the same playbook he brought to the politics of his marriage: Be charming, in the service of making radical ideals seem wholesome, chaste, and harmless.
From Slate • Oct. 30, 2023
Her gown was cream and green, with long lace sleeves, so modest and so innocent that any man who looked at her might think her the most chaste of maids.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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