Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a promiscuous manner; in a crowd or mass without order; with confused mixture; indiscriminately; without distinction of kinds or individuals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a promiscuous manner.
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- adverb In a
promiscuous manner.
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- adverb in an indiscriminate manner
- adverb in a licentious and promiscuous manner
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Examples
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3 “Einheit” is both “unit” and “unity,” and Simmel uses the term promiscuously in both senses.
Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations Georg Simmel 1956
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3 “Einheit” is both “unit” and “unity,” and Simmel uses the term promiscuously in both senses.
Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations Georg Simmel 1956
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3 “Einheit” is both “unit” and “unity,” and Simmel uses the term promiscuously in both senses.
Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations Georg Simmel 1956
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And also how a whole host of 'refugees' had 'come in promiscuously' one Sunday to dine and sleep, and be put in the way of helping themselves - on Sunday, of all days, when the shops were shut - and all her difficulties in arranging their housekeeping and getting them lodgings!
Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle 1892
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It is more like talking or dropping in promiscuously, instead of coming to a solemn dinner.
Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle 1892
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We have reason to think he had often prayed with Luke and Aristarchus, and what others there were among them that were Christians, that they prayed daily together; but whether he had before this prayed with the whole company promiscuously is not certain.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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Those images of men that had life, and some idols of other things which never had any being, are by one common name called promiscuously dead; and for that the wise man reprehends the idolater,
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel John Donne 1601
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In face of these "provocations" (to use a word promiscuously hurled by both sides), the South Ossetians - already armed and trained by Russian peacekeepers - received more and more support, to the point that it became impossible to identify the perpetrator of anti-Georgian acts: the Russian military, or local Ossetian lads.
open Democracy News Analysis - Comments warhisstoryy 2008
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A remark which so delighted Chia Lien that his eyebrows distended, and his eyes smiled, and running over, he clasped her in his embrace, and called her promiscuously: “My darling, my pet, my own treasure!”
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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A remark which so delighted Chia Lien that his eyebrows distended, and his eyes smiled, and running over, he clasped her in his embrace, and called her promiscuously: "My darling, my pet, my own treasure!"
Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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