promiscuous

promiscuous
adj
1. loose, lax, libertine, licentious, Cyprian, immoderate, intemperate, incontinent; wanton, wild, uninhibited, abandoned, unrestrained, uncurbed, ungoverned, unrestricted, unbridled, fast, Inf. swinging; dishonorable, Sl. trashy, Sl. cheap; sluttish, slutty, slatternly, strumpetlike, whorish, whoring, harlot; lustful, lascivious, carnal, libidinous, sensual, on the make, Sl. hot or hot for, Sl. hot to trot, Scot. cadgy, Archaic. lickerish; lewd, lecherous, lubricous, salacious, prurient/ concupiscent, satyric, satyrlike, goatish, ruttish, animalistic, animal, Sl. horny; unvirginal, unvirgin, unvirginlike, unchaste, impure, unclean; shameless, immodest, indecent, unvirtuous, of easy virtue, easy, unscrupulous, unprincipled, unregenerate, unredeemable; dissolute, debauched, rakish, rakehell, rakehelly, dissipated, profligate, depraved, corrupt.
2. hodgepodge, motley, jumbled, scrambled; miscellaneous, heterogeneous, medley, composite, mixed, intermixed, intermingled, mingled, commingled, combined, integrated; divers, diversified, varied, manifold; wholesale, general, inclusive, sweeping, broad, wide, extensive; amorphous, arbitrary, unmethodical, methodless, unsystematic, systemless, unorganized, unarranged; disorderly, disorganized, disordered, unordered, disarranged, disarrayed, deranged; harum-scarum, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, confused, chaotic, incoherent; haphazard, random, uncontrolled, hit-or-miss, irregular, thrown together; messy, sloppy, untidy, unneat.
3. indiscriminate, indiscriminating, indiscriminative, undiscriminating, nondiscriminative, nondiscriminatory, undifferentiating; uncritical, unselective, unchoosy, unparticular, unfussy, unfastidious; careless, disregardful, heedless, thoughtless, mindless; unconscientious, remiss, negligent, neglectful, slack, slipshod, slovenly; perfunctory, cursory, hasty, slapdash, casual, indifferent, lackadaisical, devil-may-care; reckless, rash, precipitate, capricious, irresponsible.

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