unchaste

/'ʌn'tʃeist/
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Definition
  1. Adjective:
    • Not chaste; lacking sexual purity or restraint: Describes a person, behavior, or lifestyle that does not conform to accepted standards of sexual morality, often implying promiscuity or impurity.
    • Lewd or lascivious: Can describe something, such as language or conduct, that is characterized by or incites lustful thoughts or desires.
Examples of Usage
  • Adjective:
    • The novel's protagonist was criticized by society for her unchaste behavior.
    • In the historical drama, accusations of being unchaste could ruin a woman's reputation.
    • The preacher condemned the unchaste thoughts that lead to sinful actions.
Advanced Usage
  • "unchaste life": A lifestyle characterized by a lack of sexual restraint.
    • He repented for his former unchaste life.
  • "unchaste reputation": A public perception of someone as being sexually impure.
    • Rumors spread, giving her an unchaste reputation she did not deserve.
Variants and Related Words
  • Unchastity (n): The state or quality of being unchaste.
    • The sermon focused on the dangers of unchastity.
  • Chaste (adj): The direct antonym, meaning pure, celibate, or modest in sexual matters.
    • She led a chaste and devout life.
Synonyms
  • Immodest: Lacking modesty, especially in sexual matters.
  • Promiscuous: Having many casual sexual partners.
  • Lascivious: Feeling or revealing an overt and often offensive sexual desire.
  • Lewd: Crude and offensive in a sexual way.
Antonyms
  • Chaste: Abstaining from extramarital, or from all, sexual intercourse; pure.
  • Virtuous: Having or showing high moral standards.
  • Pure: Free of any contamination (moral or physical).
Related Idioms and Phrases
  • "Lead an unchaste life": To live in a way that is not sexually pure or restrained.
    • The biography claimed the artist led an unchaste life in his youth.
  • "Unchaste woman/man": A dated, often judgmental term for a person perceived as sexually immoral.
    • The old laws were unfairly harsh toward any woman labeled an unchaste woman.
Adjective
  1. not chaste
    • unchaste conduct

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