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  • We're genetically promiscuous—we mate with anyone we choose—and we don't take kindly to scientists telling us who to reproduce with.†   (source)
  • It has been decided that you were compulsively promiscuous.†   (source)
  • Lawrence didn't approve of strong language in private life and was almost prudish in some ways on the subject of promiscuity.†   (source)
  • I thought of the king's words, suggesting that maybe the other girls were being much more promiscuous than I was prepared to be.†   (source)
  • Lagos found this interesting-this promiscuous dispersal of information, written on a medium that lasts forever.†   (source)
  • Although cases of AIDS date back at least to the late 1950s, the disease did not reach epidemic proportions in the United States until increased air travel and sexual promiscuity helped transmit the virus far and wide.†   (source)
  • But inside the house the name cards were in confusion and people sat where they could in an obligatory promiscuity that defied our social superstitions on at least this one occasion.†   (source)
  • And none of the women had been especially promiscuous; on average, they'd had sexual relations with two different men, consecutively not concurrently, practicing "serial monogamy."†   (source)
  • During the past year she had had only one regular sex partner—hardly promiscuous, as her casebook entries during her late teens had designated her.†   (source)
  • He was mortified by thoughts of the men she had slept with before their marriage; he was convinced, moreover, that she remained promiscuous-that every time he went to sea, or even left her alone for the day, she betrayed him with a multitude of lovers, whose existence he unendingly demanded that she admit.†   (source)
  • It was an invasive life form, devastating and promiscuous.†   (source)
  • But there I only gave examples of the kinds of people — highly promiscuous, sexually predatory — who are critical to epidemics of sexually transmitted disease.†   (source)
  • The second you placed an item in the file, a fuzzy photograph, an unfounded rumor, it became promiscuously true.†   (source)
  • The intention is to reduce girls' sexual desire, curb promiscuity, and ensure that daughters will be marriageable.†   (source)
  • His promiscuity seemed inconceivable, but it also meant that he had seen and done it all.†   (source)
  • Are you saying she was promiscuous?†   (source)
  • Hasn't it ever occurred to you that in your promiscuous pursuit of women you are merely trying to assuage your subconscious fears of sexual impotence?†   (source)
  • Did she love him, or was she just promiscuous?†   (source)
  • Men running promiscuously and in columns to the lines.†   (source)
  • She waited while he completed his impassioned speech on the moral decline of the country, the insidious corruption that stemmed from promiscuity, conception control, genetic engineering.†   (source)
  • It drove her to a promiscuous love life, where men used her instead of loving her.†   (source)
  • Beans laughed at that but relished the tales of the silver queen's promiscuity.†   (source)
  • Down go the windows, nothing obvious about that, but the damn truck smells like a den of promiscuous skunks.†   (source)
  • They feared that soon they would know everything, that they would lie promiscuously in the bodies of men and women and in the mechanics of every thought and every calculation, that they would rest high on individual grains of sand and feel the thunder of their overturning, that they would flow down streams, sit at the bottom of the sea in the dark, and be dashed upon the beach in the waves of cold winter storms.†   (source)
  • Stone concludes: "One could in the same city and in the same century worship Zeus as a promiscuous old rake, henpecked and cuckolded by Juno or as Justice deified.†   (source)
  • Dr. Leila Hadawi was no ordinary recruit, however, and so she packed with deception in mind— summer dresses of the kind worn by promiscuous Europeans, revealing swimwear, erotic undergarments.†   (source)
  • Wolves are also strict monogamists, and although I do not necessarily consider this an admirable trait, it does make the reputation for unbridled promiscuity which we have bestowed on the wolf somewhat hypocritical.†   (source)
  • I was stunned by my own promiscuity, and its recklessness.†   (source)
  • Out of the joy I hide for fear it is promiscuous, I may walk for ever at the fall of evening by the river, and find this river street by the red rock, this first, last house, that's perhaps a boarding house now, standing full-face to the tide, and look up to that window-that upper window, from which the mystery will never go.†   (source)
  • After anywhere from twenty minutes to an hour of conviviality (in which the pups took part, getting under everyone's feet and nipping promiscuously at any adult tail they might encounter) the three adults would adjourn to the crest of the den, usually led by Angeline.†   (source)
  • Take, for example, "compulsive promiscuity."†   (source)
  • She was the ideal plaything—grown-up, promiscuous, socially incompetent, and at his mercy.†   (source)
  • His random promiscuity now seemed glorious to me.†   (source)
  • When she examined the data, she couldn't find any indication that Africans are more promiscuous.†   (source)
  • The war protesters, the garbage thieves, the rock bands, the promiscuity, the drugs, the hair.†   (source)
  • The aim is to minimize a woman's sexual pleasure and hence make her less likely to be promiscuous.†   (source)
  • In any case, for women the lethal risk factor is often not promiscuity but marriage.†   (source)
  • One cannot be too careful in a garrison town, as soldiers and sailors are promiscuous in their habits.†   (source)
  • Instead it had been indiscriminately promiscuous, had not pair-bonded, and had spent most of its waking life, when it wasn't eating, engaged in copulation.†   (source)
  • I would guess that it also tends to encourage irrational behavior, maybe lowers the victim's defenses to viral ideas, makes them sexually promiscuous, perhaps all of the above.†   (source)
  • How many girls do you think a seventeen-year-old boy would have to screw to earn the label "compulsively promiscuous"?†   (source)
  • After nearly two hours of tense parrying back and forth, Agent Heekin's interrogation had established little more than that Sachs was a collector of erotica, and that he'd been promiscuous with consenting students and professors over the last eleven years at the university.†   (source)
  • Further, he was considerably more disapproving of the outspokenness and apparent promiscuity of French women than ever Adams had been.†   (source)
  • Nor was it a rape of some innocent—her file confirmed that she had had many sexual encounters, could even be regarded as promiscuous.†   (source)
  • "You say 'uncontrolled promiscuity.'†   (source)
  • Promiscuity.†   (source)
  • They confirmed that Lisbeth Salander had a lifestyle that revolved around alcohol, drugs, and promiscuity.†   (source)
  • You write that, quote, 'Her self-destructive and antisocial behaviour is confirmed by drug abuse and the promiscuity which she has exhibited since she was discharged from St. Stefan's,' unquote.†   (source)
  • Promiscuity.†   (source)
  • Not surprisingly, her prognosis was dismal after her treatment was interrupted, and her life became a round of alcohol abuse, police intervention, and uncontrolled promiscuity.†   (source)
  • In Afghanistan, washing with soap is often associated with post-coital activity, so the group was thought to be implying that the women were promiscuous.†   (source)
  • One of the premises of the abstinence-only campaign had been that Africa's AIDS problem was a consequence of promiscuity, but that may not have been true, particularly for African women.†   (source)
  • Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who've never felt it.†   (source)
  • They're so big, so promiscuously public.†   (source)
  • Religion is too personal a thing to share promiscuously and the thought of being there with Jack filled me with a kind of awe; made me feel as though I should tiptoe up the aisle and genuflect in careful silence.†   (source)
  • The tropical sunshine lay like warm honey on the naked bodies of children tumbling promiscuously among the hibiscus blossoms.†   (source)
  • Every thing had been heaped in promiscuously.†   (source)
  • Aristocracy and plutocracy still furnish the figureheads of politics; but they are now dependent on the votes of the promiscuously bred masses.†   (source)
  • A rather fast crowd had come out, who drank cocktails in limousines and were promiscuously condescending and patronizing toward older people, and Eleanor with an esprit that hinted strongly of the boulevards, led many innocents still redolent of St. Timothy's and Farmington, into paths of Bohemian naughtiness.†   (source)
  • Newman accepted every proposal, shook hands universally and promiscuously, and seemed equally unfamiliar with trepidation or with elation.†   (source)
  • Now I'll be more interesting, and let you see some loose play—giving all the cuts and points, infantry and cavalry, quicker than lightning, and as promiscuously—with just enough rule to regulate instinct and yet not to fetter it.†   (source)
  • After various ineffectual pullings and twitchings, just as the senator is losing all patience, the carriage suddenly rights itself with a bounce,—two front wheels go down into another abyss, and senator, woman, and child, all tumble promiscuously on to the front seat,—senator's hat is jammed over his eyes and nose quite unceremoniously, and he considers himself fairly extinguished;—child cries, and Cudjoe on the outside delivers animated addresses to the horses, who are kicking, and…†   (source)
  • As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extracts are solely valuable or entertaining, as affording a glancing bird's eye view of what has been promiscuously said, thought, fancied, and sung of Leviathan, by many nations and generations, including our own.†   (source)
  • There also stood a large arm-chair and a large table, compasses, alembics, skeletons of animals suspended from the ceiling, a globe rolling on the floor, hippocephali mingled promiscuously with drinking cups, in which quivered leaves of gold, skulls placed upon vellum checkered with figures and characters, huge manuscripts piled up wide open, without mercy on the cracking corners of the parchment; in short, all the rubbish of science, and everywhere on this confusion dust and spiders'…†   (source)
  • In the United States the citizens have no sort of pre-eminence over each other; they owe each other no mutual obedience or respect; they all meet for the administration of justice, for the government of the State, and in general to treat of the affairs which concern their common welfare; but I never heard that attempts have been made to bring them all to follow the same diversions, or to amuse themselves promiscuously in the same places of recreation.†   (source)
  • While this attack lasted, the family lived in constant fear of a conflagration, for the odor of burning wood pervaded the house at all hours, smoke issued from attic and shed with alarming frequency, red-hot pokers lay about promiscuously, and Hannah never went to bed without a pail of water and the dinner bell at her door in case of fire.†   (source)
  • But the rock on which these easy explanations founder, is that she was not promiscuous.†   (source)
  • And seeing that you ought to be a little more promiscuous …†   (source)
  • The unforgivable crime was promiscuity between Party members.†   (source)
  • Tom Junior: How about your well-known promiscuity, Papa?†   (source)
  • Promiscuity went unpunished, divorce was permitted.†   (source)
  • "Somehow," she mused, "I hadn't been feeling very keen on promiscuity lately.†   (source)
  • The things which are sacred or precious to us are the things we withdraw from promiscuous sharing.†   (source)
  • Don Antonio had been a promiscuous lover in his young days, and his brothers held that Inez was the offspring of some temporary attachment, and had been adopted by Doña Isabella.†   (source)
  • This mistress loved gossip and enjoyed a periodically controlled promiscuity which seemed only to amuse Karkov.†   (source)
  • Though He must have been young once, surely He was young once, and surely someone who has existed as long as He has, who has looked at as much crude and promiscuous sinning without grace or restraint or decorum as He has had to, to contemplate at last, even though the instances are not one in a thousand thousand, the principles of honor, decorum and gentleness applied to perfectly normal human instinct which you Anglo-Saxons insist upon calling lust and in whose service you revert in…†   (source)
  • His own life, for all its anonymous promiscuity, had been conventional enough, as a life of healthy and normal sin usually is.†   (source)
  • And your promiscuity.†   (source)
  • The ceremony begins again—but there are few now left to dance with, and so very soon the collection is over and promiscuous dances once more begin.†   (source)
  • Thank God, it was high time that I stopped condescending to promiscuous intercourse with such infamy, such dung.†   (source)
  • I trust I have not, in talking of his liabilities, given the impression that poor Edward was a promiscuous libertine.†   (source)
  • Have you ever been there?" she asked; and as he remained sullenly dumb she went on: "I know so many who've tried to find it; and, believe me, they all got out by mistake at wayside stations: at places like Boulogne, or Pisa, or Monte Carlo—and it wasn't at all different from the old world they'd left, but only rather smaller and dingier and more promiscuous."†   (source)
  • Insolvent debtors of minor grade, together with the promiscuous lame ducks of morality found in the Navy a convenient and secure refuge.†   (source)
  • Philip was now more comfortable, for space was so limited that there were only studies for boys in the upper school, and till then he had lived in the great hall in which they all ate and in which the lower forms did preparation in a promiscuity which was vaguely distasteful to him.†   (source)
  • But it's just my promiscuous luck.†   (source)
  • Lily had not quite reconciled herself to the necessity of appearing as Rosedale's guest on so conspicuous an occasion, and it was a relief to find herself supported by any one of her own set—for Mrs. Fisher's social habits were too promiscuous for her presence to justify Miss Bart's.†   (source)
  • All that period she passed in an agony of jealousy and fear—the fear that Edward might really become promiscuous in his habits.†   (source)
  • Every sailor, too, is accustomed to obey orders without debating them; his life afloat is externally ruled for him; he is not brought into that promiscuous commerce with mankind where unobstructed free agency on equal terms—equal superficially, at least—soon teaches one that unless upon occasion he exercise a distrust keen in proportion to the fairness of the appearance, some foul turn may be served him.†   (source)
  • …from cold, for their food was not nourishing and their circulation bad; space gave them a feeling of chilliness, and they wanted to burn as little coal as need be; there was no hardship for several to sleep in one room, they preferred it; they were never alone for a moment, from the time they were born to the time they died, and loneliness oppressed them; they enjoyed the promiscuity in which they dwelt, and the constant noise of their surroundings pressed upon their ears unnoticed.†   (source)
  • Promiscuous breeding has produced a weakness of character that is too timid to face the full stringency of a thoroughly competitive struggle for existence and too lazy and petty to organize the commonwealth co-operatively.†   (source)
  • She did not care to be mingled in their noisy dispersal: once in the street, she always felt an irresistible return to her old standpoint, an instinctive shrinking from all that was unpolished and promiscuous.†   (source)
  • Kate Corby, whose tastes made her as promiscuous as Carry Fisher was rendered by her necessities, occasionally descended on the Gormers, where, after a first stare of surprise, she took Lily's presence almost too much as a matter of course.†   (source)
  • Since she had left Mme. Regina's she had spent her days in the streets, partly to escape from the uncongenial promiscuities of the boarding-house, and partly in the hope that physical fatigue would help her to sleep.†   (source)
  • Something of her mother's fierce shrinking from observation and sympathy was beginning to develop in her, and the promiscuity of small quarters and close intimacy seemed, on the whole, less endurable than the solitude of a hall bedroom in a house where she could come and go unremarked among other workers.†   (source)
  • It would be scarcely more reasonable to require of our own contemporaries the peculiar virtues which originated in the social condition of their forefathers, since that social condition is itself fallen, and has drawn into one promiscuous ruin the good and evil which belonged to it.†   (source)
  • With all this, she, the elder of the sisters, was not yet twenty, and they had both been educated, since they were about twelve years old and had lost their parents, on plans at once narrow and promiscuous, first in an English family and afterwards in a Swiss family at Lausanne, their bachelor uncle and guardian trying in this way to remedy the disadvantages of their orphaned condition.†   (source)
  • Forced and long-continued toil became the rule of life, the old ties of blood relationship and kinship disappeared, and instead of the family appeared a new polygamy and polyandry, which, in some cases, almost reached promiscuity.†   (source)
  • What those two creatures did in her absence, she never knew, but Mr. Scott was not taken 'up to Mother's', and when Meg descended, after they had strolled away together, she found traces of a promiscuous lunch which filled her with horror.†   (source)
  • Fantine was laid in the shade, among the first bones that came to hand; she was subjected to the promiscuousness of ashes.†   (source)
  • The promiscuous multitude arranged themselves upon large banks of turf prepared for the purpose, which, aided by the natural elevation of the ground, enabled them to overlook the galleries, and obtain a fair view into the lists.†   (source)
  • By order, our comrade means whether they go in promiscuous droves, like a swarm that is following its queen-bee, or in single file, as you often see the buffaloes trailing each other through a prairie.†   (source)
  • He thought school much more bearable under this modification of circumstances; and he went on contentedly enough, picking up a promiscuous education chiefly from things that were not intended as education at all.†   (source)
  • The same promiscuousness, and yet more unprecedented, exists between the things of the intelligence and the facts of substance.†   (source)
  • Fathers, mothers, children, brothers, sisters, men, women, daughters, adhere and become incorporated, almost like a mineral formation, in that dusky promiscuousness of sexes, relationships, ages, infamies, and innocences.†   (source)
  • " muttered old Hannah, who could not resist frequent "peeks" through the slide as she set the table in a most decidedly promiscuous manner.†   (source)
  • …tied at the hips with the belt stringing the huge oval lakes; Always the West with strong native persons, the increasing density there, the habitans, friendly, threatening, ironical, scorning invaders; All sights, South, North, East—all deeds, promiscuously done at all times, All characters, movements, growths, a few noticed, myriads unnoticed, Through Mannahatta's streets I walking, these things gathering, On interior rivers by night in the glare of pine knots, steamboats wooding up,…†   (source)
  • Here lay several human bones, there several pieces of mangled flesh, half eaten, mangled, and scorched, whilst streams of blood ran promiscuously as waters from a fountain.†   (source)
  • And Between A Law And A Charter Likewise Lawes and Charters are taken promiscuously for the same thing.†   (source)
  • In the next place, it may fairly be supposed, that there would be less difficulty in gaining some of the jurors promiscuously taken from the public mass, than in gaining men who had been chosen by the government for their probity and good character.†   (source)
  • Difference Between Law And Right I find the words Lex Civilis, and Jus Civile, that is to say, Law and Right Civil, promiscuously used for the same thing, even in the most learned Authors; which neverthelesse ought not to be so.†   (source)
  • …two kinds of Servants have thus much common to them both, that their labour is appointed them by another, whether, as a Slave, or a voluntary Servant: And the word Latris, is the general name of both, signifying him that worketh for another, whether, as a Slave, or a voluntary Servant: So that Latreia signifieth generally all Service; but Douleia the service of Bondmen onely, and the condition of Slavery: And both are used in Scripture (to signifie our Service of God) promiscuously.†   (source)
  • (He coughs thoughtfully, drily) Promiscuous nakedness is much in evidence hereabouts, eh?†   (source)
  • Say, Muse, their names then known, who first, who last, Roused from the slumber on that fiery couch, At their great Emperor's call, as next in worth Came singly where he stood on the bare strand, While the promiscuous crowd stood yet aloof?†   (source)
  • Trojans and Latians vie with like desires To make the field of battle shine with fires, And the promiscuous blaze to heav'n aspires.†   (source)
  • Still pressing onward, to the walls he drew, Where shafts, and spears, and darts promiscuous flew, And sanguine streams the slipp'ry ground embrue.†   (source)
  • Now, studious of the sight, a num'rous throng Of either sex promiscuous, old and young, Swarm the town: by those who rest behind, The gates and walls and houses' tops are lin'd.†   (source)
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