unchaste

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Don John, enemy of Claudio, plans to thwart the marriage by letting it appear that Hero is unchaste.

From William Shakespeare by Masefield, John

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 Reed, John Calvin

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

Impure, im-pūr′, adj. mixed with other substances: defiled by sin: unholy: unchaste: unclean.—adv.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

No, if her alien heart dotes on another, She is unchaste, were not that other Percy.

From Percy A Tragedy by More, Hannah