unchaste

Definition of unchastenext

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for unchaste
Adjective
  • The post garnered nearly 200 comments, mostly calling the meme vulgar and indecent.
    Kaitlin McCallum, Hartford Courant, 4 May 2026
  • Pamela Martin, 44, and her boyfriend Christopher O’Kane, 41, both pleaded guilty in March to three counts of making an indecent image of a child, two counts of distributing an indecent image of a child, possession of an extreme pornographic image and publishing an obscene article.
    Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 28 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • They are sometimes fully clothed, sometimes less so—bare-breasted and bare-bottomed, coquettishly posed, festooned with kitschy props—unabashedly immodest in every sense of the word.
    Bryan Barcena, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026
  • The immodest middle section celebrates their grandson, Charles V, who commissioned this facade and decorated it with the complex coat of arms of the mighty Habsburg Empire.
    Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Wise’s wistful songwriting is retained, but completely missing is his intentionally impure palette.
    Billie Bugara, Pitchfork, 7 Mar. 2026
  • This is because they are often seen as ritually impure.
    Megan Bryson, The Conversation, 5 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • The facility had an unclean can opener and black residue in the ice machine.
    Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado May 1, Sacbee.com, 1 May 2026
  • Islamic finance may also avoid sectors and products considered haram, or unclean; for example, a sharia-compliant ETF may avoid banks that offer traditional loans or e-commerce platforms that sell pork.
    Angelica Ang, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Then downstairs in the filthy little basement, where there's the stone butt carved into the wall, people knew exactly what to do.
    Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 May 2026
  • Strong supports the closing of Men’s Central Jail and said the department needed to look at medical care, filthy living conditions and a lack of healthy food and clean water.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
Adjective
  • Faced with that reality, our inability to relate to one another becomes almost obscene.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 May 2026
  • For instance, the ruling recognized that the government’s need to protect national security might require it to prevent publication of the number and location of troops and that the primary requirements of decency might require censorship of obscene publications.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • But demeaning our brand through association with vulgar demagogues is a losing strategy.
    Alma Hernandez, New York Daily News, 1 May 2026
  • The word was considered so vulgar that it was left out of early dictionaries and was rarely printed, though Adams says people were certainly using it.
    Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Levinson’s series has long trafficked as a kind of smutty after-school special, not unlike how Ryan Murphy delves into some of the nastiest gore imaginable and then chastises us for watching.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2026
  • But is seeking such an escape a greater threat to authenticity than checking out by playing video games, watching sports, reading smutty novels or using drugs and alcohol?
    Adam Kadlac, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2026
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“Unchaste.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unchaste. Accessed 11 May. 2026.

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