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How to pronounce promiscuous in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms easy, light, loose, sluttish, wanton
Derivation promiscuity, promiscuousness
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Clinton was criticized for his promiscuous solicitation of campaign money.

Examples of promiscuous

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Women are less promiscuous than men, which is what is holding straight men back.
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Mr Khair evokes the dark and tricksy world of a foreigner in a promiscuous city.
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I was so scared I would be judged because of this as promiscuous and unreliable.
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They crowd together in bundles of over 100 individuals and are very promiscuous.
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Even girls who suffer less extreme forms of FGM are unlikely to be promiscuous.
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Male Drosophila melanogaster are promiscuous and compete for available females.
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Good credit, that is, and not the promiscuous, no-doc credit of the mid-2000s.
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Those targeted included the poor, mentally ill, disabled or promiscuous women.
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Why are creationists so promiscuous about choosing where they promote their cause?
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More examples
  • Not selective of a single class or person; "Clinton was criticized for his promiscuous solicitation of campaign money"
  • Easy: casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; "her easy virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"; "wanton behavior"
  • (promiscuously) in an indiscriminate manner; "she reads promiscuously"
  • In human sexual behavior, promiscuity denotes sex with relatively many partners. In polygamy it is distinguished from promiscuity.
  • "Promiscuous" (also known as "Promiscuous Girl") is a song recorded by singer Nelly Furtado and Timbaland for Furtado's third album, Loose (2006). Furtado, Timothy "Attitude" Clayton, Timbaland and Danja wrote the song, and Timbaland and Danja produced it. ...
  • Made up of various disparate elements mixed together; of disorderly composition; Made without careful choice; indiscriminate; Indiscriminate in choice of sexual partners; The mode in which a NIC gathers all network traffic instead of getting only the traffic intended for it
  • (PROMISCUITY) Mating with more than one individual without forming permanent bonds. Male Ruby-throated Hummingbirds may be promiscuous because their relationship with a female essentially ceases after mating. See also polygamy.
  • Reckless, careless. "He was arrested for a promiscuous display of fire arms."
  • By default, the IDS network interface only sees information addressed to it -- this is termed non-promiscuous. By making the interface promiscuous, you can see all the network traffic on your segment regardless of the source or destination address. ...