unchaste
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- adjective
- /ʌnˈtʃeɪst/
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- Most unchaste spirit, in the name of our Almighty Lord, I command you to tell me who you are.
- unchaste appetite
Examples
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She said: "How can I have a son when no man has touched me, nor am I unchaste?"
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And they affect both the mind and the body, the corrupted mind and the unchaste body.
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Not an unchaste word or oath escaped his lips.
Academic text (1996) -
But any person telling themselves that they can be unchaste and still be faithful to the teachings of Jesus had better do some serious soul-searching.
Blog text (19) -
The road to unchaste words and deeds begins with such free consent to impure thoughts.
Blog text (29) -
The unchaste man, whose nature has no "likeness" to chastity and who therefore has no "sympathy" for it, cannot.
Academic text (1992) -
"An unchaste woman serves as a symbol for the wickedness of Babylon, and female figures also represent evil in the Book of Revelation.
Academic text (2006) -
No unchaste woman shall henceforth live and pre and plead Lucretia's example.
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Subjecting a child to these odds is a social injustice, whether intentionally, as some proudly do by having children outside of marriage on purpose, or unintentionally through unchaste behavior committed in weakness.
Blog text (32) -
The novel's protagonist was criticized for her unchaste behavior in a conservative society.
Synonyms
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Not morally clean because it is corrupt or obscene
Wrong or bad because it goes against accepted ideas of right and wrong
Antonyms
How Chaste
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unchaste is made from the parts un- ('not') and chaste, which comes from the old Latin castus meaning 'pure', the same root you see in chastity. So unchaste means 'not pure', especially about sexual behavior, which is why it describes a lack of modesty.