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Definition of Promiscuously
1. Adverb. In an indiscriminate manner. "She reads promiscuously"
2. Adverb. In a licentious and promiscuous manner. "This young girl has to share a room with her mother who lives promiscuously"
Definition of Promiscuously
1. adv. In a promiscuous manner.
Definition of Promiscuously
1. Adverb. In a promiscuous manner. ¹
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Definition of Promiscuously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Promiscuously
Literary usage of Promiscuously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Containing His Correspondence, and His by Alexander Hamilton (1850)
"... and I suppose little or nothing with you; could they be got at I would not
send them down, but they are stowed promiscuously among other things. ..."
2. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"... me under a great big archway promiscuously ornamented wid the most improper
carvin's an' ... promiscuously ..."
3. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"A somewhat disreputable association of. men and women living promiscuously on a
common fund, which existed fur a tune at ..."
4. A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett by William Leggett, Theodore Sedgwick (1840)
"in some degree or other, the validity of the great bulwark of our rights—the
trial by a jury of twelve peers, taken promiscuously from the whole body of ..."
5. Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United by George Edward Cokayne (1889)
"Ем-1 " und " Count " (ne in the сове(л) of Albemarle) WM promiscuously applied.
On account of the great importance of these feud.1»! ..."
6. Key to the Exercises Adapted to Murray's English Grammar: Calculated to by Lindley Murray (1814)
"IL Containing corrections of the false ORTHOGRAPHY, promiscuously disposed.
SECTION I. Exercises, p. 36. <» NEGLECT no opportunity of doing good. ..."
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