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 

• PROMISCUOUSLY (adverb)

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)