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Recent Examples of promiscuity
The role of Carmen was played with fiery promiscuity by ballerina Ariana Gonzalez, who was flirtatious with a fan in one scene and brandishing a knife in another.
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Marcia Luttrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2025
Wind words proliferated and spread with untamed promiscuity, as did wind gods, all around the planet.
—Big Think, 18 Nov. 2025
Sabrina Carpenter is, sometimes accidentally but more often on purpose, a lightning rod, the kind of pop star whose art and humor consistently get hoovered up into the overarching fights over women’s promiscuity and desirability.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
Set in the 1970s, the novel tells the story of the return of Tieta to the remote village of Santana do Agreste 26 years after being banished for promiscuity, beaten and expelled by her father in front of all the town’s people.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 14 July 2025
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Marcia Luttrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2025
Wind words proliferated and spread with untamed promiscuity, as did wind gods, all around the planet.
—Big Think, 18 Nov. 2025
Sabrina Carpenter is, sometimes accidentally but more often on purpose, a lightning rod, the kind of pop star whose art and humor consistently get hoovered up into the overarching fights over women’s promiscuity and desirability.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
Set in the 1970s, the novel tells the story of the return of Tieta to the remote village of Santana do Agreste 26 years after being banished for promiscuity, beaten and expelled by her father in front of all the town’s people.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 14 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for promiscuity
Noun
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The Bible teaches that lying, stealing, adultery and coveting your neighbor’s property are sins.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
16 Mar. 2026
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The facile novelty of adultery is its own mask, a sexy way of dressing up a deep, frightened longing for security.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
6 Mar. 2026
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With whom, by whom, and thanks to whom is of no significance to him whatsoever, so it can hardly be considered infidelity.—
Agnieszka Szpila,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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Fans were outraged when rumors of infidelity on the Irish actor’s part began to circulate.—
Fleurine Tideman,
Glamour,
23 Mar. 2026
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Undocumented immigrants venture from Mexico, often underestimating of the treachery of the landscape.—
Shi En Kim,
AZCentral.com,
26 Mar. 2026
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Jonathan Cute kept probing the murky realms between tourism and treachery.—
Adam Ciralsky,
Vanity Fair,
19 Mar. 2026
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Pictures removed Azmoun later removed the pictures but was still lambasted on state TV on Thursday with soccer pundit Mohammad Misaghi saying the striker’s actions had been an act of disloyalty.—
Reuters,
CNN Money,
20 Mar. 2026
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Research on group dynamics shows that dissent is often interpreted as disloyalty rather than contribution.—
Benjamin Laker,
Forbes.com,
16 Jan. 2026
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The president was a crook, their friends were dying, and the previous decade of free love and expression seemed far away.—
Jack Crosbie,
Rolling Stone,
17 Mar. 2026
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Styles’ current persona is harder to pin down, landing somewhere between free love cult leader (there’s a gospel choir credited on no less than five Kiss All the Time tracks) and a life coach.—
Walden Green,
Pitchfork,
6 Mar. 2026
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Any time there is a crisis in Iran, the 1953 British-American coup against Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh is dusted off as Exhibit A in the case against Western perfidy.—
Bobby Ghosh,
Time,
5 Mar. 2026
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But the mayor’s dramatic tale of his predecessor’s fiscal fiddling was designed with a clear political agenda in mind: both to underline the magnitude of the problem and to identify the villains responsible for this perfidy.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
29 Jan. 2026
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Brenay Kennard, a lifestyle content creator with nearly 3 million followers on TikTok, is at the center of a civil lawsuit that has made national headlines, in which she is accused of criminal conversation and alienation of affection.—
Taylor Ardrey,
USA Today,
12 Nov. 2025
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According to the verdict form, the jury found Kennard liable for $250,000 for the criminal conversation claim and awarded another $1.5 million in damages for the alienation of affection claim.—
Cristian Santana,
NBC news,
12 Nov. 2025
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The costs of decades of misconduct by Chicago police have grown enormous as the city settles lawsuit after lawsuit using expensive private counsel to handle most of the work.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Mar. 2026
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And of course, Andrew being stripped of his titles and evicted from Royal Lodge, only to then be arrested for suspicion of misconduct in public office.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
30 Mar. 2026
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“Promiscuity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/promiscuity. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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