How to Use promiscuous in a Sentence

promiscuous

adjective
  • Bring your promiscuous husband and dance the night away, boo!
    — Terra Jolé, PEOPLE.com, 6 July 2017
  • This is not people who were promiscuous or who cheated on their spouses.
    — Maggie Fox, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Males have been found to make the most sperm in species where individuals are most promiscuous.
    — Louise Gentle, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2018
  • The pretty, promiscuous girl is the first victim in slasher movies.
    — Sascha Cohen, SELF, 17 May 2018
  • There’s also a very typical stereotype that gay men are promiscuous and flirty and out at the club.
    — Amy Shoenthal, Forbes, 24 June 2022
  • Trump has a promiscuous habit (no, not that one) of flinging wild accusations.
    — Mona Charen, National Review, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Mouse lemurs are promiscuous, and during mating the males have to cling to the slightly larger females.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2015
  • The group makes politely promiscuous tracks that place the trio’s origin story in the realm of pre-ordained.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2023
  • In it, Ethel is portrayed as promiscuous and without scruples.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2021
  • What is his promiscuous use of spectacle and theatrics intended to mask?
    — Jiwei Xiao, The New York Review of Books, 14 Mar. 2020
  • There are good reasons to be skeptical about the promiscuous use of military power.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Badger males and females are promiscuous, meaning both have multiple partners and don’t form pair bonds.
    — National Geographic, 14 Feb. 2020
  • My faith has been questioned by thousands who don’t know my heart, and my transparency with my decisions has labeled me promiscuous.
    — Marie Claire, 14 Aug. 2019
  • All the while, fascism encroaches on the promiscuous, homoerotic fun of the club.
    — Marianne Eloise, Vulture, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Eight years later, Liam is a stadium-filling country music star, as well as a promiscuous drunk.
    — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Rogue killers stalk happy campers, promiscuous teens meet untimely ends in showers, and overbearing mothers come out to play for those who don’t play nice.
    — Nathan Smith, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2022
  • If the three x’s didn’t give it away, this song is quite promiscuous, Gaga inviting a girl over to play out her nastiest fantasies while her boyfriend is out of town.
    — Henry Youtt, Billboard, 15 June 2018
  • Who would not rather pruriently pore over a promiscuous society upstart’s past than deal with the awkward geopolitics of the day?
    — Catherine Ostler, Town & Country, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Before the first step, Chapais said, both male and female hominins were, like chimpanzees, promiscuous with partners.
    — Blake Edgar, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2016
  • Moore portrayed the promiscuous older sister for six episodes, wrapping her run at the end of the show's sixth season in 2004.
    — EW.com, 24 July 2024
  • From the rare to the rotten, Americans' love affair with the automobile is a bit promiscuous.
    — Lee Cowan, CBS News, 24 May 2026
  • One or two bunches of kale-or-other are stemmed and chopped and swept into a sink full of fresh water, then scooped out and sautéed with garlic and chili flakes in a promiscuous amount of good olive oil.
    — Tamar Adler, Bon Appetit, 24 Jan. 2017
  • The ultimate success of these efforts is an open question—the politics of risk are, after all, always promiscuous.
    — Popular Science, 14 Apr. 2020
  • There's so much going on behind the surface and as to why Malva does become promiscuous and does meet with a lot of men, there's a very specific reason for it all.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Hawk, naturally promiscuous and more than a little manipulative, doesn’t want the cozy monogamy that Tim yearns for.
    — Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 20 June 2016
  • Neil, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, responds to the abuse by becoming a promiscuous hustler.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The former hockey player is now trying to become one of the biggest pairs skaters out right now, but his promiscuous ways keep him from actually having a partner for long.
    — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 6 Jan. 2020
  • The technique as proposed would work because nucleic acids like DNA are promiscuous.
    — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 23 Mar. 2018
  • The result will be a promiscuous world order in which countries will be able to make arrangements with both China and the United States.
    — Mark Leonard, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2013
  • The greatest targets of Big John’s ire, former students say, were young female students who were perceived as having been promiscuous.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2024

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