promiscuous

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1. promiscuous - Adjective

2. promiscuous - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Consisting of individuals united in a body or mass without order; mingled; confused; undistinguished; as, a promiscuous crowd or mass.

Distributed or applied without order or discrimination; not restricted to an individual; common; indiscriminate; as, promiscuous love or intercourse.

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Examples

I went out with a promiscuous impressionist - she did everybody. Jay London

Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die, And lost in one promiscuous carnage lie. Joseph Addison

Word and Excel and PowerPoint and other Microsoft programs have intimate - one might say promiscuous - knowledge of each others' internals. In Unix, one tries to design programs to operate not specifically with each other, but with programs as yet unthought of. Doug McIlroy

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?" "Yes, sir, it has." "Then why do you do it?" "To assuage my fears of sexual impotence. Joseph Heller

Most young women do not welcome promiscuous advances. (Either that, or my luck's terrible.) Groucho Marx

If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery. Albert Einstein

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