promiscuity

noun

Definition of promiscuitynext
as in adultery

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Recent Examples of promiscuity Interiors celebrate promiscuity, and the serpentine symbol that marks the entrance hall carpet can be spotted on the jewelry of staff uniforms. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Feb. 2026 The role of Carmen was played with fiery promiscuity by ballerina Ariana Gonzalez, who was flirtatious with a fan in one scene and brandishing a knife in another. — Marcia Luttrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2025 Her new friends include Sam (Bianca Dumais), a rock-chick type who’s the same age as Franny and who has developed a reputation for promiscuity around town that doesn’t seem deserved. — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 25 May 2026 Verrill’s former partner, the entertainment lawyer Bob Geary, shares emotional testimony about their relationship — one fraught with promiscuity and Verrill’s taste for the BDSM leather life — but also a reflection on his lover’s killing. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 11 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for promiscuity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for promiscuity
  1. adultery
  2. infidelity
  3. treachery
  4. disloyalty
  5. free love
  6. perfidy
  7. criminal conversation
  8. misconduct
Noun
  • Under the law, moral offenses — including adultery and same-sex relations — can carry penalties of up to 100 lashes.
    — Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026
  • Four other people were publicly caned on Thursday for online gambling and adultery.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 July 2026
Definition of adultery
Noun
  • Kate divorced Jon, 48, in 2009 amid reports of infidelity surrounding her now ex-husband.
    — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
  • Skratch also interviewed other sources for its story who alleged infidelity by Mickelson amid abrupt endings of memberships at other golf clubs.
    — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 27 June 2026
Definition of infidelity
Noun
  • Guides spoke of the monthlong siege that ended only because of the treachery of a local noble who turned on the sultan and allowed British troops to scale the walls.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 2 July 2026
  • This is not treachery but the truest and noblest affection.
    — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
Definition of treachery
Noun
  • And still, some people insist that admitting the flaws in our history — and our present — constitutes an act of innate disloyalty.
    — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 June 2026
  • Treating rumors as diagnostic signals of uncertainty or weak trust, rather than disloyalty, helps leaders improve communication and align words with observable actions.
    — Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
Definition of disloyalty
Noun
  • His is a more enlightened era, but Hannes, lonely and withdrawn, doesn’t share his classmates’ interest in campus sit-ins and free love.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
  • While there was a sprinkling of back-to-the-land hippies in my town, the free love and sexuality fluidity of the 1960s hadn’t reached us.
    — Jennifer Acker, PEOPLE, 8 May 2026
Definition of free love
Noun
  • If the landing had been faked, the Soviets would have figured it out and would have loved to reveal to the world America’s perfidy.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 May 2026
  • Any time there is a crisis in Iran, the 1953 British-American coup against Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh is dusted off as Exhibit A in the case against Western perfidy.
    — Bobby Ghosh, Time, 5 Mar. 2026
Definition of perfidy
Noun
  • Brenay Kennard, a lifestyle content creator with nearly 3 million followers on TikTok, is at the center of a civil lawsuit that has made national headlines, in which she is accused of criminal conversation and alienation of affection.
    — Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 12 Nov. 2025
Definition of criminal conversation
Noun
  • Heather Diehl | Getty Images More broadly, there can also be data-matching issues with Social Security numbers in ACA marketplace enrollment — meaning the lack of SSN may be a data issue, not misconduct, Oberlander said.
    — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 3 July 2026
  • Allegations of employee misconduct are taken seriously and investigated thoroughly.
    — DeJanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 2 July 2026
Definition of misconduct

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