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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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The synopsis reads: 1972: The Ecclesiastical Court of Santiago de Compostela convicted Sagrario Fra, a shellfish harvester in Ferrol, for committing adultery.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
31 July 2024
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There’s adultery and cuckoldry and suspicions of adultery and cuckoldry and doubles and all the other good Cronenbergian ideas.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
17 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Season 2 finds the couple becoming the talk of the town after a cast trip to Vanderpump Villa leaves Demi facing accusations of infidelity.—
Angela Andaloro,
People.com,
15 May 2025
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This case is about love, jealousy, infidelity and money.—
Jenna Sundel
Joshua Rhett Miller,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 May 2025
Noun
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Press play below to learn more about Wells’ treachery, and to get a sneak peek at the fugitive interacting with her latest target.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
7 Apr. 2025
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Sinners is one of the great vampire movies of the modern age, mining the legend of these perpetual outsiders who desperately yearn to belong, but whose silky promises are rooted in treachery.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
29 Apr. 2025
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The message is unmistakable: disloyalty to the narrative will be punished.—
Tony Bradley,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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The Game is speaking up after the controversial figure attempted to call him out for disloyalty on X/Twitter.—
Jessica Bennett,
VIBE.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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The story takes place in what seems to be the 1920s, among folks for whom free love is the order of the day, even when inducing fainting, fits of screaming and accidental death.—
Lisa Brown,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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The science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein also allegedly influenced Manson, with its plot about a man from Mars who preached free love and caused a major movement on Earth.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
14 Dec. 2024
Noun
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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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Despite high trade deficits, the U.S. economy is strong Trump and his advisers point to America’s lopsided trade numbers—year after year of huge deficits—as proof of foreigners’ perfidy.—
Time,
Time,
9 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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The business-as-usual approach dovetails with a year of acts from Brand New to Ryan Adams looking to put a wide range of allegations of misconduct in the rearview mirror by giving diehards a show of talent to talk about instead and little else.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
13 May 2025
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Substantial misconduct, Murphy said in the filing, can also warrant the disqualification of a prosecutor.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
12 May 2025
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“Promiscuity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/promiscuity. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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