unchaste

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Iachimo comes to England, and by a trick obtains evidence that convinces Posthumus that Imogen is unchaste.

From William Shakespeare by Masefield, John

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

It is evidently an incorrect use of language to describe the unmarried women of a tribe as unchaste, unless there is a rule for them.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham

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

From Percy A Tragedy by More, Hannah

Where there are no laws for the conduct of unmarried women they are not unchaste.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham