promiscuity
Example Sentences
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In each of these examples, the concern is ostensibly about promiscuity and irresponsibility, but is in fact a repudiation of women’s power and autonomy, Lomax explained.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 10, 2021
These machines, called spectrum analysers, discovered a strange disturbance in the force, if you’ll pardon the franchise-reference promiscuity.
From The Guardian • Sep. 27, 2020
A cursory synopsis of Ira Sachs’s drama reveals the plot points that once haunted sanctimonious, homophobic novels and movies about gay life: promiscuity, addiction, lies, anomie — look at these poor people!
From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2020
This same concern has been studied for the HPV vaccine, with the exact same finding: no increase in promiscuity postvaccination.
From Scientific American • Mar. 5, 2020
Among such Australian tribes as have been studied, this primitive restriction upon promiscuity seems to be about the only one.
From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by Fiske, John
