promiscuity

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Recent Examples on the Web Drugs and alcohol continue to flow along with bisexual promiscuity and the discovery of S&M helps ease Lidia's demons. Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 9 May 2024 Daniel makes his promiscuity entertaining with the song’s steady percussive bounce. Heran Mamo, Billboard, 28 Mar. 2024 In media, many bisexual characters become lazy plot devices to demonstrate promiscuity. Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2024 These famous men were more well known for their promiscuity than their level heads, which may have been influenced by the disease. Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for promiscuity 
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Noun
  • There’s adultery and cuckoldry and suspicions of adultery and cuckoldry and doubles and all the other good Cronenbergian ideas.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 20 May 2024
  • Seems dad’s latest Big Book is, in fact, completely plagiarized from a manuscript, long thought destroyed, written by McNeal’s wife, Harlan’s mother, who committed suicide after discovering her husband’s adultery.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The trailer teases several tense conversations between cast members, including rehashing Marissa and Ramses' breakup, Hannah and Nick's turbulent relationship, Stephen's infidelity with Monica and other storylines that attracted lots of internet attention.
    KiMi Robinson, The Enquirer, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Daisy Ridley is returning to the big screen — in a dark thriller about infidelity, written by her husband.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 25 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Politics is full of deceit, treachery, and betrayal. . . .
    Quintus Tullius Cicero, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2012
  • Triumph shadowed by treachery became the dynamic of both the revolution and his life.
    Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2017
Noun
  • His initial refusal to bend the knee—even trying for a last-minute coup at the Republican convention in Cleveland with a protest speech from the stage—put him in the MAGA column for disloyalty.
    Philip Elliott / Houston, TIME, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Throughout the rest of the movie, Donald demonstrates his mastery of these methods in a relentless and brazen series of betrayals, disloyalties, cruelties.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Comics also exposed a scandalous side to American society with scenes of free love, secret identities, and gender-play.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The awkward love triangle depicted in the film is true to the free love spirit of the show's origins.
    Jillian Sederholm, EW.com, 4 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Putin inundates Ukraine’s airwaves with propaganda about the West’s perfidy, the West’s agonizingly slow and insufficient support of Ukraine, the West’s seeming willingness to bleed Ukraine as a proxy, Zelensky’s anti-democratic centralization of power, and the like.
    Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
  • On March 4, 1798, the first dispatches from France finally arrived and exposed the depths of French perfidy.
    Lindsay M. Chervinsky / Made by History, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Howard sued his wife’s lover for alienation of affection and criminal conversation, according to court records.
    Lateshia Beachum, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2019
  • 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
Noun
  • The dispute stems from an arbitration award issued in summer 2023 that provided CPD officers accused of serious misconduct the option to have their administrative cases decided by the Chicago Police Board or in private by a third-party.
    Sam Charles, Chicago Tribune, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Caldwell said in the letter the allegations in the lawsuit, which are unproven, point to possible crimes that include abuse of authority, obstruction of justice, witness tampering and misconduct in office, as well as violations of MSP rules of conduct.
    Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 23 Oct. 2024

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“Promiscuity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/promiscuity. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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