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promiscuous
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  • From the fourth the bones had been thrown down, and lay promiscuously upon the earth, forming at one point a mound of some size.  (source)
    promiscuously = indiscriminately (non-selectively)
  • It claimed to teach dance, but instead it taught immodesty, promiscuity.†  (source)
  • I laughed again, and told him that having most of your social engagements occur at a children's hospital also did not encourage promiscuity, and then we talked about Peter Van Houten's amazingly brilliant comment about the sluttiness of time, and even though I was in bed and he was in his basement, it really felt like we were back in that uncreated third space, which was a place I really liked visiting with him.†  (source)
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  • I was promiscuous in college, and maybe a little in high school, too, but since Pete, there's only been one before Jess.†  (source)
  • Your mother was, shall we say ...known for her promiscuity.†  (source)
  • Men running promiscuously and in columns to the lines.†  (source)
    promiscuously = indiscriminately (non-selectively)
  • Fantine was laid in the shade, among the first bones that came to hand; she was subjected to the promiscuousness of ashes.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • 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)
  • A week later and it had taken most of the village, and they threw the bodies all promiscuous in a plague pit they dug outside of the town, that they filled in after.†  (source)
  • Amon is indeed represented as a man with a ram's head, and his promiscuity and curved horns are related to our modern sexual slang 'horny.'†  (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)
  • The same promiscuousness, and yet more unprecedented, exists between the things of the intelligence and the facts of substance.†  (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)
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