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Recent Examples of promiscuity
This shows that there are many paths to a peaceful existence, and both monogamy and promiscuity can get you there.
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Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
Puritans went so far as to outlaw the celebration of Christmas in New England in 1659 because revelry often included feasting, drunkenness and promiscuity – not acceptable ways to honor the birth of Christ.
—Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 15 Dec. 2024
Nowadays, his audaciously eccentric nature, along with his extreme promiscuity, is souring into something far less palatable: a litany of horrific accusations.
—Raven Smith, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2024
Russia is a conservative society that viewed the years of Yeltsin’s rule, and its onslaught of pornography and promiscuity, with horror.
—Robert David English, Foreign Affairs, 10 Mar. 2017
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Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
Puritans went so far as to outlaw the celebration of Christmas in New England in 1659 because revelry often included feasting, drunkenness and promiscuity – not acceptable ways to honor the birth of Christ.
—Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 15 Dec. 2024
Nowadays, his audaciously eccentric nature, along with his extreme promiscuity, is souring into something far less palatable: a litany of horrific accusations.
—Raven Smith, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2024
Russia is a conservative society that viewed the years of Yeltsin’s rule, and its onslaught of pornography and promiscuity, with horror.
—Robert David English, Foreign Affairs, 10 Mar. 2017
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for promiscuity
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After Swaggart accused Gorman of adultery, Gorman hired a private investigator who followed Swaggart and took the photographs in New Orleans that ignited the scandal.—
Muri Assunção,
New York Daily News,
1 July 2025
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Every look with such an irregular desire is in our Savior’s opinion a virtual adultery. . . .—
Merve Emre,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
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There have also been issues with infidelity, the source alleged.—
Anna Lazarus Caplan,
People.com,
30 June 2025
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This disregard often pushes them toward infidelity, without thinking of its consequences.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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The six-parter, to debut July 14, follows six groups of friends, and six historical cases of murder and treachery among them.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
19 June 2025
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But amid the bloodbaths and treacheries, Westeros still penciled in time for a little romance — some more compelling than others (Jon and Ygritte > Jon and Daenerys).—
Tyler Aquilina,
EW.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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More cunningly, this also serves to instill you with guilt: as though refusing to align with their viewpoints equates to a signal of disloyalty.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2025
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One video aims to appeal to senior Communist Party officials who live in perpetual fear of being snapped up by Xi’s seemingly endless crackdown on corruption and disloyalty.—
Nectar Gan,
CNN Money,
2 May 2025
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The oldest celebrity on this week’s arts pick list, however, has to be Victoria Woodhull, the spirited feminist, spiritualist and advocate of free love who died 98 years ago at the age of 88.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
14 June 2025
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There are presentations that are very much about sexuality, eroticism, gender, free love, other forms of erotic families or erotic communities, and erotic practices.—
Harrison Jacobs,
ARTnews.com,
3 Sep. 2019
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Their perfidy is memorialized in the English language, though.—
Evan Osnos,
New Yorker,
26 May 2025
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The prior month, Vice President JD Vance had lodged his own complaints about Europe’s alleged perfidy, threatening that the United States might withdraw its security guarantees from Europe if the EU continued to aggressively regulate U.S. tech companies.—
ANU BRADFORD,
Foreign Affairs,
21 Apr. 2025
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Howard sued his wife’s lover for alienation of affection and criminal conversation, according to court records.—
Lateshia Beachum,
Washington Post,
3 Oct. 2019
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North Carolina is one of about a half-dozen states that allow lawsuits accusing a cheating spouse’s lover of alienation of affection and criminal conversation.—
EMERY P. DALESIO,
The Seattle Times,
5 Sep. 2017
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His last review, which examined misconduct allegations against Russell Brand, only referenced job titles.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
12 July 2025
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Sorrell exited the company in 2018 amid a probe of allegations of misconduct, and Read, who spent much of this time building new digital operations, became the company’s new leader.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
10 July 2025
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“Promiscuity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/promiscuity. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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