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PROMISCUOUSLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does promiscuously mean?
• PROMISCUOUSLY (adverb)
The adverb PROMISCUOUSLY has 2 senses:
1. in an indiscriminate manner
2. in a licentious and promiscuous manner
Familiarity information: PROMISCUOUSLY used as an adverb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In an indiscriminate manner
Synonyms:
indiscriminately; promiscuously
Context example:
she reads promiscuously
Pertainym:
promiscuous (not selective of a single class or person)
Sense 2
Meaning:
In a licentious and promiscuous manner
Synonyms:
licentiously; promiscuously; wantonly
Context example:
this young girl has to share a room with her mother who lives promiscuously
Pertainym:
promiscuous (casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior)
Context examples
While this attack lasted, the family lived in constant fear of a conflagration, for the odor of burning wood pervaded the house at all hours, smoke issued from attic and shed with alarming frequency, red-hot pokers lay about promiscuously, and Hannah never went to bed without a pail of water and the dinner bell at her door in case of fire.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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