promiscuously
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8.2
- adverb
- /prəˈmɪskjʊəsli/
- NSFW
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promiscuamente
- It is entirely vague and devoid of objective definition but is used promiscuously to vilify those the government wants vilified.
- so promiscuously
Examples
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As for racism, I don't like the way the term is slung around promiscuously and indifferently, like fascism.
Blog text (27) -
"If social scientists referred to "national" groups as races (the "Italian race") and to Southern and East European pan-nationalities as races (Slavonic and Mediterranean "races"), they did so because they used race promiscuously to mean other things.
Academic text (1997) -
The original Muses might be imagined now as little apples, home computers wired into the great mother memory bank of the world, promiscuously fingered by the swift digits of the global villagers.
Blog text (11) -
Mitochondria are the evolved descendants of symbiotic bacteria, and they still act much like bacteria in many ways: multiplying by division and promiscuously swapping protein machinery with one another, for example.
Blog text (15) -
We two couples did not exchange autobiographies—something most West Coast people did rather promiscuously back then—and if I hadn't stumbled into the wrong room on my way to the bathroom, I might never have found out about their sleeping arrangements.
Academic text (2001) -
Tourism, on the contrary, has typically been vilified by cultural critics, when it should be seen as neither inherently positive nor negative, but rather understood as an increasingly significant process, promiscuously intertwined with local reality, and whose cultural effects are never neutral but are conjoined unpredictably with the variable mentalities of its participants.
Academic text (1999) -
He dated various people promiscuously, not focusing on a committed relationship.
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The club was known for its atmosphere where people danced promiscuously with anyone.
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She lived her life promiscuously, often sharing a bed with different partners.
Synonyms
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6.7
Doing things without careful choice or noticing differences
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9.9
In a way that shows strong interest in sex and makes others uncomfortable
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9.3
In a sexually unrestrained and immoral way
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9.7
In a way that shows unwanted sexual interest
In a way that ignores moral rules about sex and behavior
In a way that shows strong sexual desire
Antonyms
How Selective
Surface Forms
Morphology
promiscuously = promiscuous (transparent) = promiscuous + ly
The adverb is the regular -ly derivative of the adjective 'promiscuous', so the manner meaning is directly derived.
Etymology
The word promiscuously comes from the Latin parts pro- and miscere, which give the idea of 'mixed together', like the English word 'mix'. So, to act promiscuously is to do things without choosing carefully or all mixed together, which is why it can mean having many casual partners or behaving in a messy, unplanned way.