unchasteness

noun

Definition of unchastenessnext
as in impurity

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  1. impurity
  2. unchastity
  3. evil
  4. wickedness
Noun
  • Editors’ Picks The ban, Russia claimed at the time, was needed to protect consumers from impurities, but it was widely seen as retaliation for demands by Moldova that Russia stop supporting the breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria.
    Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Clean the skin: People often rinse chicken to remove visible impurities such as blood, feathers, or other impurities before cooking.
    Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of impurity
Noun
  • On their wedding day, Claudio repudiates and humiliates Hero at the altar, accusing her of unchastity (the highest of crimes) and unfaithfulness.
    Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2022
  • Traditionally, an allegation of a woman’s unchastity constitutes libel per se.
    Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 27 May 2021
Definition of unchastity
Noun
  • His surreal, operatic films and television shows examined romance, consciousness, evil, and the enduring rot beneath suburban sheen and Hollywood glamor.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 17 Jan. 2025
  • These evils are sensational and appalling, and there’s an impulse to perceive them as existing outside of our realities, perpetrated by people who aren’t like us.
    Billy J. Stratton, The Conversation, 17 Jan. 2025
Definition of evil
Noun
  • Less familiar is the part that his American wife, Fanny Stevenson (née Van de Grift), played in juicing up the story’s plot to establish Edward Hyde’s wickedness early on.
    Tobias Grey, airmail.news, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Burkhart’s wickedness is more intimate, more complex, more human.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Definition of wickedness
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