Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The state or character of being promiscuous.
- n. Promiscuous sexual relations.
- n. A mixture of diverse or unrelated parts or individuals; a hodgepodge.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Promiscuousness; confusion; indiscriminate mixture.
- n. Promiscuous sexual union, as among some races of people.
Wiktionary
- n. The state or quality of being promiscuous.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Promiscuousness; confusion.
WordNet 3.0
- n. indulging in promiscuous (casual and indiscriminate) sexual relations
Examples
“Regardless, the word ‘gay’ had an overall essence of promiscuity from the 1890s with the suggestion of immorality as far back as the early 1600s.”
“My point was to say that sexual promiscuity is rampant on college campuses even though every college student is at least sexually educated in the biological “just facts” way.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause
“The true ratio of male-to-female promiscuity is determined entirely by the ratio of females to males, which means that it is probably close to one.”
My Favorite Example of a Biased Statistic, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Do you really think your poorly fictionalized "beat-inspired" memoir of misogyny and promiscuity is a. cool or b. remotely new and interesting?”
“Let's be honest, while promiscuity is not good in relationships, it's great for those looking for news and information.”
“Did they grow up in a neighborhood where promiscuity is considered repulsive?”
“Boasting, showing-off and notches on the bedpost have always been the province of the male, and in particular a certain type of oaf who will go to great lengths to lie about bedding wenches while dismissing as trollops any wench whose promiscuity is rumoured to match his own.”
“For instance, promiscuity is "natural"; the human animal, like many others, is quite easily inclined thereto.”
“Unfortunately, the real issues aren’t so much the mechanics [50 plus rounds fired in promiscuity], but the social-political policies existing that allowed such event to occur.”
“Sometimes I think she is making up for my so-called promiscuity by being more conservative.”
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